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The article says it's about building wiring, and then goes off babbling about transmission systems. I'm not sure that it is at all useful to lump the disparate wiring practices of different parts of the world in one article. The transmission stuff is better covered in a different article. Do we really want an article about lights'n'plugs and panelboards? Here's what I would expect to see covered in a real article on electrical wiring (cribbing wildly from the table of contents of the Canadian Electrical Code)
--Wtshymanski 00:13, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
I was looking for tips as to how to debug my home wiring setup. I'm trying to install a 3-pole light switch and was interested in background as to what the black wires are, what "hot" or "phase" or "neutral" really means in a practical sense, how to hook that up to a variety of wiring configurations, etc.
Seems to me the 'wiring' article should have a brief definitiion of 'wiring' with links to 'power wiring' (its current content, more or less), 'electronics wiring' (soldering, circuit theory...); the 'power wiring' section should then be a big synopsis of a bunch of other articles, some structured like the code-books, which are designed to tell people what a finished product should look like, and some structured like a how-to book, and taylored to individuals trying to find out how to plan a new bathroom, troubleshoot a problem or install a new circuit. In general, I'd like to see articles on all the trades include a very rich interlinking of articles on tools and methods, so if you're trying to do something and look up an article about it, you discover all the specialized tools and methods that exist, that you may not have known about. --Robmonk 04:12, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I think there should be a discussion of connection methods: terminal blocks vs. wire nuts vs. soldering, etc. I'm under the impression that US and European practices differ here. --agr 16:07, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
The article electrical services has a lot of duplicate information to the article Electrical wiring, and really shouldn't be it's own article. There is some new information (from what I can tell) that can be merged into the previously existing article.--Esprit15d 14:40, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Yes Nixon pogiso (talk) 08:50, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
Well folks, I've dived in and reworked the entire table (Be Bold!). I hope you like it. The table seemed like it was originally 2 separate tables spliced together. Combining the tables made sense, because the color codes for FLEXIBLE and FIXED cables are closely-related, but distinct conventions. I did my best to preserve the meaning of the various entries, as best I could figure them out. The table is certainly much clearer, where previously it was hard-to-read, ambiguous and inconsistent. Now, it also may have clearer errors. I apologize if I have misinterpreted any content from the previous version of the table, and strongly encourage any regional experts to review and correct any inadvertent mistakes.
As a lingering mystery, I still can't figure out what "ICI applications" means in the footnotes. Googling turns up little except the name of a particular consulting company. I have now flagged "ICI" as "vague", and propose deleting it if nobody can explain what it means. Reify-tech (talk) 17:38, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Long time later, the table has been overhauled again. Almost every entry got a standard listed. Only China is missing, and "pre-2004 IEE" remains ambiguous, as the body seemed to only rule over BS 7671 standard, until that one got aligned with the rest of Europe under IEC. The rules remain in use in old installations and in some ex-British colonies. Added a lot of countries to the NEC entry, with source, as a lot of ~120 V America follows it.
And probably more importantly, a lot of junk was removed. Colors listed for the sole reason that the rules don't prohibit their use and they happen to be used. The rules for flexible cables find no basis in any standards, other than for the US one (maybe, citations needed), so the distinction has been completely removed. Tracerneo (talk) 02:00, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
I am partly color blind and wire colors have been the bane of my existence. This chart is no different as the wire colors are pictographs. Fine for the non color blind. But for me, frustrating and confusing. Is that brown or green? Maybe dark red? Copper color or brown? I can't tell. So I humbly request that someone please also put the color in the table along with the pictographs. An example of a problem I have reading the chart: At the top of the table under flexible cord we have the row "Australia, New Zealand (AS/NZS 3000:2007 3.8.3)". Two pictographs represent two wire colors I can not make out on first glance. The wire to the left could be dark green or brown. The wire to the right darker orange or red. I then have to look around the chart at the other colors to get a feel for the shades used to be able to figure out the colors. Thaddeusw (talk) 14:49, 9 March 2017 (UTC)