Talk:Aviation light signals

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different cat.

I suggest to use Category:Technical communication. It is controlled by humans (at least through programming machines) and understood by the cockpit crew. The method is done technically by the lights. That is comparable to traffic signals on the road which are executed by technology, not humans. 119.42.82.214 (talk) 06:19, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions for Completeness

This article as it currently stands has been aptly classified as a stub, meaning it provides little meaningful content. Though the material itself isn’t incomprehensible — on the contrary, it is rather succinct in its delivery — it provides little to no context as to the importance of the topic at hand.

If we compare the current piece on aviation signals to the already existing piece on regular traffic signals, the issues become rather telling. The article covering traffic signals provides all sorts of additional context on the topic — from the history of its development, details behind the technology that makes up the system, to all sorts of regional variants currently in use, down to the legal implications of the system on modern driving culture. Any of these topics is likely a good candidate for further content additions to the piece on aviation traffic signals.

Structurally the piece barely even qualifies as an article at the moment — its best described as a paragraph and a table sharing the same page. The lack of any subheadings or a table of contents, features that are somewhat iconic of articles on Wikipedia, paints a grim picture as to the amount of content currently being presented. Furthermore, there’s likely a lot more that could be done with regards to cross-referencing to other relevant articles, as its one of the defining features of the modern encyclopedia. Particularly when it comes to the more technical aspects of operation and when describing brightness, additional context would be greatly appreciated.

The easy solution, as offered by Wikipedia guidelines themselves, is to add more referenced information justifying the topic’s importance. In fact, the article already contains a decent number of references that are likely not being exploited to their fullest potential, so there’s plenty that could be done with the references that have already been gathered. 2607:FEA8:1B9F:9D40:45D1:C776:4E92:3AC2 (talk) 00:03, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]