Talk:HOn30

Photo with something to give scale, preferably showing the different size scales available.

Merge proposal
I'm proposing merging this article with HOe scale and OO9. HOe is another term for HOn30 so the two topics should be merged as Wikipedia is not a dictionary. OO9 is another scale but extremely close, and often interchanged. As an example, view On30. --Michael Johnson 11:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I disagree with the proposal to merge HOn30, HOe and OO9 into one article. These may be similar scale/gauge combinations, but they have quite distinct histories, are generally used to model different prototypes and actually model different gauges. I see no compelling reason to merge them. Gwernol 11:16, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * All three articles are stubs and would be difficult to expand. In fact they are all used to model the same "group" of gauges, ie. 600mm, 2', 2'3", 760mm, 750mm, 2'6", depending on the interests of the modeller. There are many parallels, and all three subjects would benefit from comparison of the differences. Lastly there is often confusion amongst people not familier with the different scale/gauges as to the differences, and one article outlining differences and the histories would help clarify this. Of course this infomation could be included on each article but then we would end up with three very similar articles. --Michael Johnson 11:33, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't agree that they would be difficult to expand. There's a lot of material available to do so, especially for HOe and OO9. They are really quite distinct scales. OO9 for example is rarely used to model prototypes larger than 2 ft. 3 in. (27 in.) gauge, while HOe is rarely used for less than 750mm gauge. OO9 is almost exclusively used to model British prototypes, HOe is mainly non-British European prototypes, HOn30 is North American prototypes. The manufacturers in each scale are quite different too, and their histories are distinct. OO9 doesn't even share a common scale with HOe and HOn30. I'd rather see these articles properly expanded than merged.


 * I do think a common article about scales and gauges would be useful, but isn't that already Rail_transport_modelling_scales? Gwernol 11:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)