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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:48, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Ecological light pollution

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Created by Anotherdoon (talk). Self nom at 13:44, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

  • Source and date of creation are good, but I suggest replacing "if" with "though" because there's no doubt that LEDs produce less light and "overall" with "than conventional forms of lighting" to provide context. Smokeybjb (talk) 03:53, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
ALT1: ... that even though LED street lighting produces less light than conventional forms of lighting, it can still cause more ecological light pollution?
As far as I know it really depends on the installation. Also, in former communist countries in the EU (particularly in rural areas) there is still a lot of 70's era lighting, and if that gets replaced by LEDs it's quite likely that the lights will be brighter. I like the change to the hook (somehow I forgot "conventional lighting"), but to be sure it's right everywhere (and to avoid a potential plug for the LED lighting industry on the front page) I would use the below. Anotherdoon (talk) 19:22, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
ALT2: ... that even when LED street lighting produces less light than conventional forms of lighting, it can still cause more ecological light pollution?
ALT2 looks good, too. Smokeybjb (talk) 23:57, 22 August 2011 (UTC)