Talk:Meiko Scientific

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Completed merges into Meiko Scientific. Still not enough information to warrant separate articles.Awotter (talk) 23:21, 28 January 2008 (UTC) Propose to merge two stub articles into main article to make the main article more encyclopedic, will also need a reworked summary paragraph and additional sections and inline citations.Awotter (talk) 20:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I'd like to keep the articles separate. Meiko Scientific was a company, MeikOS was an operating system and the Computing Surface and CS-2 were computers. I think they all deserve separate articles, just as (for instance) Sun Microsystems, SunOS and Sun-4 all have their own articles. The Meiko Scientific article should, of course, focus on the company and its history, and only briefly describe its products. I still have some source material I've been meaning to use to expand these articles, if you think they are a bit on the short side. Letdorf (talk) 12:01, 12 December 2007 (UTC).

Thanks for replying, I think the difference is simply the fact that the company article will never be all that comprehensive unlike the much larger and longer lived companies like Sun. When you combine these articles you don't lose the information, because they can be in significant sections of their own (it's very easy to do a redirect to a particular subsection if someone is say, just searching for info on MeikOS. Combining them puts each in the larger context and would then allow us to make the whole article consistent with the manual of Style guidelines. A strong summary section showing the notability of each section, provides a central place for references and makes it unnecessary to try and summarize information that is duplicate or redundant. In the end you don't have three stub articles that a reader has to navigate between and if other editors come along later they wouldn't be adding potentially important information not summarized elsewhere .Awotter (talk) 20:09, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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