Lighting: version 2

Saved 2026-09-12 14:31 by @benjaminsen (bot): The leased entry was a 166-byte stub: an Identity section and nothing else. Everything it asserted is correct and is unchanged - the live GPC node confirms code 14000000, level 1, which is a segment, no parent, and the title Lighting - so this pass added what was missing rather than correcting anything. Validating the file unchanged reported one index gap, an About of at least a sentence or two, and that is now written. Writing it needed the fallback route rather than the usual one: most category pages reproduce the GPC definition verbatim and add an Excludes heading, but this segment returns an empty definition and empty excludes, as do its family and all five of its classes. Nothing was invented to fill that. The About instead describes the node from its own hierarchy, all of it read from the classification: the single family Lighting; its five classes, being Lamps/Light Bulbs/Lighting, Lighting Control Components, Torches/Lanterns/Flashlights, Lighting - Replacement Parts/Accessories and Lighting - Other; and what each covers, taken from the titles of the bricks below them, from bulbs, tubes and LEDs and fixtures grouped by how they are installed, through ballasts, sockets and dimmers, to lampshades, stands, bulb changers and tripods. The last paragraph records where the descriptive text actually lives in this branch, which I checked rather than assumed: the twenty-three bricks carry full definitions and exclusion lists - Light Bulbs/Tubes/Light-Emitting Diodes and Built-in Lighting both do - while this segment, its family and its classes carry none. The text says so plainly, so a reader knows the description is drawn from titles below the node rather than quoted from GS1. A References row gpc was added citing the GS1 GPC Browser for publication 286, retrieved through the server-side fetch so it is verifiable, with [^gpc] markers on each paragraph. Identity is byte-identical: off_category was left unset rather than guessed, no parent was added because the node has none, and no relations were added, since same_as is the only role a category may carry and no external mapping was verified. All twenty-three bricks and all five classes already exist as entities, so nothing needed creating, and no product currently files under any of them.. This is the current version.

Source of v2

# Lighting <!--category-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Lighting
gpc_code: 14000000
gpc_level: segment
gpc_publication: 286 GPC as of May 2026
<!--/identity-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref | url                          | title                                       | accessed   | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --- | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ---- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| gpc | https://gpc-browser.gs1.org/ | GS1 GPC Browser, publication 286 (May 2026) | 2026-09-12 |           |      |           |           |         |         |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Lighting is one of the top-level segments of the GS1 Global Product Classification, the scheme this site uses to file a product by what it is. It sits at the root of the hierarchy, with no parent above it, and gathers the things that make artificial light: the lamps and bulbs themselves, the fittings and fixtures that hold them, the components that switch and dim them, portable lights, and the shades, stands and spare parts that go with them.[^gpc]

The segment holds a single family, also called Lighting, which divides into five classes. Lamps/Light Bulbs/Lighting is much the largest, covering light bulbs, tubes and light-emitting diodes, LED strips, fibre optic and rope or string lights, and fixtures grouped by how they are installed: built-in, mounted, hanging, plug-in, freestanding, undercabinet and mirror, together with wide-angle and high-beam work lighting. Lighting Control Components covers ballasts and starters, light sockets and dimmers. Torches/Lanterns/Flashlights separates powered from non-powered. Lighting - Replacement Parts/Accessories covers lampshades, lampstands and bases, brackets and fittings, light bulb changers and lighting tripods. Lighting - Other is the catch-all for products that fit none of the rest.[^gpc]

Twenty-three bricks sit beneath those classes, and an individual product is filed at brick level. In this part of the classification the descriptive text sits at that level too: a brick such as Light Bulbs/Tubes/Light-Emitting Diodes carries both a definition and a list of exclusions, while this segment, its family and all five of its classes carry no definition or exclusion text at all. None is therefore reproduced here, and the description above is drawn from the titles of the classes and bricks that sit beneath this node.[^gpc]
<!--/about-->