Talk:Storage water heater

Unvented cylinders

On Water heating under "Main article: Storage water heater" it says:

"In the UK these vessels are called unvented cylinders."

but the word "unvented" does not appear on this page! So this supposedly autoritative page contains less information than a supposed summary of it. Please add at least that sentence to this page.

Also on the disambiguation page "UVC" there is no mention of unvented cylinder as a possible meaning.

Requested move 24 June 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Calidum 21:04, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

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Storage water heater → Water heater – Per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Water heater currently redirects to the article about the process, water heating, which doesn't really make sense. Anyone searching with "water heater" is almost certainly looking for this article, rather than for Water heating. It's true that there are other types of water heaters, like the tankless type, but those are typically qualified accordingly (Tankless water heater redirects to Tankless water heating), but this tank or storage type of water heater is by far the most common use of the unqualified "water heater", and is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of this term. Also, the redundant misnomer Hot water heater should redirect to this article as well (currently it also redirects to Water heating). В²C ☎ 19:46, 24 June 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. — Newslinger talk 06:24, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose This strikes me as an unfortunate situation where none of the available options is really the ideal article to send a reader to when they search for 'Water heater'. Water heating is maybe a little too general (it covers things that aren't called water heaters). But Storage water heater is too specific - there are water heaters that aren't covered in the article (Tankless water heaters). I think the current target (Water heating) is the least bad option. You could argue for the creation of a broad concept Water heater article, but I think that article would basically be Water heating with some small cuts. Interestingly, it looks like the Water heating article was originally called 'Water heater', but was renamed pretty early in its history. Can't find any record of discussion of the move.

I'm not convinced that 'water heater' is overwhelmingly used to refer to 'storage water heaters'. It may be that when referring to a specific other kind of water heater, the term is qualified, as in 'Tankless water heater'. But don't people also use the term 'water heater' generically to refer to the whole class of devices (tanky, tankless, solar, electric, whatever)? Colin M (talk) 01:51, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

• Interestingly, French Wikipedia does have a broad-concept water heater article at fr:Chauffe-eau (though linked to the same Wikidata item as en:Storage water heater). Not sure about other languages. Colin M (talk) 01:57, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

• Support. I honestly don't see why Water heater has to redirect to Water heating. I think the primary topic for "Water heater" is this article, so move this article to "water heater" and have a hatnote to the article on water heating. Rreagan007 (talk) 16:20, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose, as water heater commonly includes tankless. I'd rather merge the articles if people feel that the article on storage-type water heaters is a problem. Dicklyon (talk) 06:33, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

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Difference between this article and Hot water storage tank

Hi there, what's the difference between this article and Hot water storage tank? It seems to have the same subject. Maqdisi (talk) 16:44, 5 March 2023 (UTC)