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Dicdef. RickK 03:43, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]


Photos added as promised. Format is a bit iffy. It works OK but not great with IE6 and the default skin, and I've yet to find a skin that works at all with IE5 and any page containing photos. Please, if you think you can tweak it to work with all or even most browser/skin combos, do so. Andrewa 10:00, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Who the hell would look up nightstand, you ask. I did. I was looking at an art piece called Not-a-one-night-stand nightstand, and got curious about the derivation of one-night-stand. Having found that,I wondered how nightstand got its name.

Does anyone else think the statement "In the United States, pistols are often kept in nightstands for easy access if roused from sleep by an intruder." is slightly misleading? --Funkmaster 801 09:09, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Curious

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I'm continually amazed at the number of contributors who assume that just because they aren't themselves interested in a topic, nobody else is either. See the deletion debate above for some good (that is, appalling) examples of this sort of thinking.

And I guess the removal of the images I added of a traditional nightstand is another case in point. Surely the term nightstand refers primarily to these traditional ones rather than to a modern bedside table? Interested in other views on this, but here in Australia that seems to be the case.

That being so, it's hard to understand why we'd have only an image of a modern "nightstand" in the article. The images were proposed for deletion as orphans, which is why I came here for a look.

Please don't remove content just because it doesn't interest you personally. Fans of old furniture love nightstands, and there's every chance this stub will become a good article if given the chance. Andrewa (talk) 20:45, 31 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please add your photos back in where you feel is appropriate and I will remove the deletion nominations. Cloudbound (talk) 23:43, 31 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I had already done that [1], but as I said at the deletion discussion I also uploaded them to Commons, and apparently that was enough to make them elligible for immediate deletion here [2] exactly as I had requested on the deletion discussion page, a good result. Andrewa (talk) 05:17, 1 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

They are usefull to support...

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Why does the article mention a mobile phone and not a phone in general. Is it so rare to have a landline telephone this days? Hrgwea (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 11:03, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Citations needed

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This article is in need of citations. I added an editing banner. --SpiritedMichelle (talk) 02:17, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

History/origin of the term?

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I've heard recently that the term of 'nightstand' comes from a servant who would stand by the bedside holding a candle at night, which by extension came to be used for the small table or locker that it is today? Has anyone else heard of this, or would know where to look?

The corresponding term in Portuguese is "criado-mudo", which quite explicitly comes from a term describing a muted domestic servant who would stand by the bed at night, and which has seen attempts at changing due to racist connotations recently, so I'm wondering if the English word is in any way related as the name suggests?109.79.116.207 (talk) 09:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]