Talk:Ember

What edit do you want to make? --ais523 15:28, 10 October 2007 (U T C)

Idon't know but I doubt this would be a stub. Its too regular to be one.(TougHHead 02:00, 14 November 2007 (UTC))[reply]

'One of the initial stages of defending against a bushfire is dubbed the "ember attack", in which embers will bombard the house, starting small fires in wooden structures'

And how would bombarding a house with embers and thereby start small fires in the wooden structures, defend against a bushfire? It seems rather counter-productive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.214.31.205 (talk) 14:36, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Defending AGAINST the "ember attack" is part of a bushfire defense strategy. Also note that it is not defending bushfires, but defending AGAINST bushfires. Roidroid --- (talk) 11:04, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation

It seems like a disambiguation page should be created, as the "see other" section at the top is quite a bit longer than it needs to be. It might be better replaced with just "For other uses, see Ember (disambiguation)" or something to that effect. Ideas? —烏Γ ^{(kaw at me)}, 06:04, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Smouldering?

This article covers the same phenomenon as the Smouldering page. I don't see the value of having separate, less complete articles on the same thing. GBMorris (talk) 11:42, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, they are not the same thing (an ember is a material object, while smouldering is a process, and either can exist independent of other); therefore, if the two articles contain largely the same amount of material, then the articles need to be improved, not merged. Firejuggler86 (talk) 21:11, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification on "Sparks"

Should the clarification that sparks are airborne embers occur earlier in the article? The image of a bushfire with "embers" flying off seems confusing without this context. YellowBlack (talk) 03:07, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. (I've reworded the caption; it was improper usage anyway: sparks are not called embers. It would be like having a picture of a snow storm that's captioned "ice cubes falling from the sky"). ;) Firejuggler86 (talk) 21:19, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]