Talk:Product Type Classification Tree

This represents a starting attempt at showing/documenting the classification of products in terms of product types. The intermediate goal is build definitions for each product type. The longer-term goal is that this classification tree and those definitions will facilitate consistency for those adding new product info articles and cleaning up old product info articles. Also as product lists are divided into different pieces: Fiction, BattleTech CCG, MechWarrior Dark Ages, Miniatures, and the List of BattleTech products, this may help visualize the global structure.

A second purpose of this document is to facilitate the discussion of these types, both at present and in the future. There are merits both in working from definitions to examples (top-down/deductive) and from examples to definitions (bottom-up/inductive). But having an organizational visualization in terms of a tree is helpful for discussion in both cases.

This document will no doubt need editing. I surmise that both this page and this discussion will be dynamic, particularly early on.

I like the general concept very much. We should seek to establish such article trees as Policy. It also occurs to me that they are a natural framework to build the category structure on.

For the specific tree at hand, I have a number of issues/changes and will revisit this later today or perhaps tomorrow. Frabby (talk) 02:39, 2 July 2021 (EDT)