"I wasn't aware that there was a way to tag no street light on a pole. " 

I kind of have a local way I'm doing it with street_lamp=yes or street_lamp=no depending on if the power pole has a street lamp or not since I want to eventually create a map of which ones do or and don't have them. I guess you could also just use highway=street_lamp to, but I try to keep that for actual street lamps. Not just objects near the street that have lamps attached to them. 

"My understanding from your note (which always has very limited context)"

That's usually by design because it's easy for people to make mistakes if there is to much information. Plus I usually resolve my notes anyway. For every 3 or 4 year-old note of mine that is still open there's 10 or more that I've resolved in the meantime. This area was mostly empty before I started mapping it 7 years ago outside of a couple of badly done imports and I've done a lot of ground surveying and QA since then. So there's naturally going to be old notes still lying around. I'm not personally that concerned about it since I still know why most or all of them were opened and can ground check whatever I need to as a local. That's just me though. I know someone from outside of the area might see all the "old" notes around here and have panic attack because the area isn't clear of notes or whatever. Although that's not my problem either. Most of these will probably be closed sooner rather then later regardless. 

