Talk:Cymbal manufacturers

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Merging cymbal manufacturers articles. What is now needed: Brief summaries of the major manufacturers would be useful. A decision on which of the lesser manufacturers deserve their own article. And then a tidy up and an edit of the article. SilkTork 00:44, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Wouldn't these articles normally be "list of cymbal manufacturers"? (Otherwise, the title should be singular.) –Unint 01:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, for comparison's sake: List of timpani manufacturers, List of marimba manufacturers, List of guitar manufacturers; in fact, check the Google search for manufacturer lists at en.wikipedia.org. Most manufacturer lists are just lists of wikilinks to articles (or articles hoped to exist), and I have yet to find such a list with extensive prose. –Unint 01:44, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

List of bicycle part manufacturers, List of model aircraft manufacturers, List of former IA32 compatible processor manufacturers — all fairly obscure topics, but the articles (many of which are stubs shorter than the cymbal ones) remain individual. I did find a contrary example: List of streetlight manufacturers and fixtures. –Unint 01:48, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

It's an article with such extensive prose because it's an article not a list. It's like the difference between a book on the people of Great Britain and a telephone directory. This is not intended to be a telephone directory. SilkTork 08:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I propose that the article is renamed to List of cymbal manufacturers. The fact that this article contains excessive amounts of content does not stop it being a list- that is the difference between a list and a category. Categories are the telephone directories of Wikipedia, lists have much more information. An article on cymbal manufacturers would discuss methods of cymbal manufacture, and trends in the business, not list specifc examples. Well, it may have a list, but certainly no real details on it. However, I think these minor craftsmen are best suited being all together in one place. J Milburn 10:38, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I posted an inquiry at WikiProject Integration. –Unint 19:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unmerge

I'm quite appalled that UFIP and Wuhan have been lumped in with minor manufacturers. It's as if we'd created an article on automobile makes and redirected Rolls Royce and Skoda to it, on the grounds that Fiat and Ford were bigger. Where will it end? Perhaps we could just have one mega-article entitled information, and merge and redirect everything else into it? (;->

I'll try to find some time for this... but it's frustrating to have to redo things I've already done once. And I'm interested in other views of course. But mine is that, given time, these stubs are sure to grow to good articles. Andrewa 16:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

No comments? Interesting... we now list Istanbul Agop Cymbals as a major brand, with their own article, while both Wuhan and UFIP are listed as minor manufacturers. No doubt this is someone's opinion, but it's a bit sad to see it in Wikipedia.

I still say, split the articles out again. If we can have articles for every character of a playstation game, we can certainly have one for UFIP and Wuhan. We shouldn't even try to decide who are major and minor manufacturers, this is just inviting POV. Andrewa 16:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

We are missing Bosphorus entirely. Thom8o (talk) 02:46, 22 February 2008 (UTC)