Talk:Miniatures - Iron Wind Metals

This page was originally created as a section of the page Miniatures. I have simply spun off that section into its own page here. The last update of this information appears to have occurred in 2011, so further expansion of this page is possible. Dude RB (talk) 22:48, 10 May 2021 (EDT)

Note about Merger Tag

Talvin, I hope that the following information helps. From my view, this page and Iron Wind Metals should be kept separate. This page is centered on the collection of miniatures produced by Iron Wind Metals. In contrast, Iron Wind Metals is devoted to a summary of the company. While related, they have different focuses, themes, and purposes. [Note: The given bit of company history is given to contextualize the sequence of miniatures produced. This structure also parallels that present in Miniatures - Ral Partha.)

This page Miniatures - Iron Wind Metals is classified under Category:Miniatures (itself a subcatgory of Category:Game Aids and then Category:BattleTech Universe Products). Its focal point is a summary of the wide range of products that Iron Wind Metals produced. It would be infeasible to have a page for each miniature, so this page serves to catalog those together.

As evidenced by the list under Category:Game Publisher, it is standard to have a page simply devoted to the company info for a particular BattleTech related company. The page Iron Wind Metals fills that niche, even though it could use a lot of filling out yet. Note: The separation of company pages and product pages can be seen elsewhere. This is a reasonable top-down organizational division.

Talvin, I suspect that your interest in merging is due to the fact that the company page is currently brief and that you are seeking to reduce unneeded stubs. In this case, the present section stubs seem appropriate and do mark places where additional content should be filled. Please feel welcome to share your thinking on this, as you may have an angle that I am missing. --Dude RB (talk) 20:05, 22 March 2022 (EDT)

You make a good argument, and I am not committed to the idea. I am doing a ruthless purge of "stub" across the Wiki right now, but these usages are valid, I agree. I was focusing more on the fact that *this* page appears to have actual information about the company, whereas Iron Wind Metals is effectively bare. The list of miniatures/products I can see keeping here, but should not the history and such be hosted on the other page? I am going to pull the Merge tag, but I hope someone with more knowledge of things will take a look at that.--Talvin (talk) 20:11, 22 March 2022 (EDT)

(I am multitasking too much, so I will try to be more lucid this time.) AGREE on removing merger tag, did that. BUT: Miniatures_-_Iron_Wind_Metals#History_and_Background seems like it should be in Iron Wind Metals more than it does in this article. How say you?--Talvin (talk) 20:21, 22 March 2022 (EDT)

I see that you have been on an avid stub hunt thes past few days. I hope that the process is going well.

One thing that could be done is that some of the information from the history sections of both this page Miniatures - Iron Wind Metals and from Miniatures - Ral Partha can be copied to (rather than moved to) Iron Wind Metals and then compacted/synthesized, possibly with other information from the web, to make a more complete company summary. But the history on both the Miniature pages should be left more or less intact while that is in progress. [After Iron Wind Metals was more or less completed, then one could evaluate whether the history portions here could be better tailored for this particular page's need.] A merge tag tends to suggest a moving/merging of info rather than a copy&synthesize approach (and the latter is what would seem better). I'll add a quick note to the talk page for Iron Wind Metals with this note. --Dude RB (talk) 20:57, 22 March 2022 (EDT)