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Semi-protected edit request on 11 May 2015

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In the section titled "Other items named after Edison", these references are available: for USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/t/thomas-a-edison.html and for USS Edison (DD-439) http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/e/edison.html. Jwspeicher (talk) 19:02, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done And thanks for finding those Cannolis (talk) 00:33, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 26 July 2015

please edit and add life about Mr Edison's dog alfred and ho sir Edison loved him plus there is nothing about sir Alva Edison practical life 39.47.81.173 (talk) 10:26, 26 July 2015 (UTC)please i would apreciate if you listened to my recuest[reply]

Why is this article semi-protected?

^Read title MDaxo (talk) 07:14, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Covering up Tesla isn't Helping At All

It needs to be known that Tesla was the inventor of Edison's good DC generators. For Ayn Rand libertarians, this is hard to accept.JoetheMoe25 (talk) 20:49, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not WP:SOAP and there is no reliable claim Tesla was a major influence on Edison's generators. Per this edit - Dubious self produced youtube videos are not a reliable source and there are reliable claims divergent to Cheney as to what Tesla was working on at Edison Machine Works - Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age - page 71 points to Tesla actually working on an arc lighting project. Adding this material to the "War of Currents" section is off topic, many engineers and inventors worked for Edison and Tesla working at the Machine Works had nothing to do with the "War": it was 4 years before those events and Edison famously ignored anything Tesla had to say at this point. Tesla is MIA in the article, added to "See also", but that points to problems, there are no articles on Edison's companies where you could talk about employee contributions. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 21:40, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Top Documentary Films is not YouTube. The evidence is solid that Edison robbed from Tesla the same way Jobs robbed from Wozniak.JoetheMoe25 (talk) 23:00, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to fulfill the WP:BURDEN on the statements "Edison robbed from Tesla", "Edison asked Nikola Tesla... to come to New York", or show how singling out one engineer out of the (hundreds?) who worked for Edison is anything other than WP:UNDUE. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 01:21, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Edits removed per WP:BURDEN. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 14:37, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up references

Reference #9 by Travis Naeger turns out to be Naeger's school homework consisting of only a couple of paragraphs. I suggest it be removed. 81.228.54.151 (talk) 23:17, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]