Talk:Manufacturing/Archives/2017

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"History of manufacturing" needs its own article
Looking up "History of manufacturing", I was redirected to this article's section "History and development". That section is woefully inadequate to describe its topic. It includes a single subsection "Manufacturing systems: changes in methods of manufacturing", whose content is a long bullet list of wikilinks to (one hopes, relevant) articles. There is no explanatory text, either to set those topics in an historical timeline, or to indicate their relative importance. So I conclude that we need a subject expert (or at least an enthusiastic amateur!) to supply these deficiencies, preferably in the form of a new article titled "History of manufacturing".

Not myself being that expert, nor having the time to study the area deeply, I've reluctantly added yet another bullet point to the list mentioned above, linking to the article History of numerical control, since that article was a (near-)orphan. yoyo (talk) 14:04, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Category creep
This article seems to be in too many categories. Do we still need categories that refer to "version 0.7" or "version 1.0"? yoyo (talk) 14:09, 16 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Further to this, I'm wondering whether Wikipedia might be easier reading (more "user-friendly") if it would:
 * by default, suppress the display of all maintenance categories – those of interest only to editors;
 * and also provide a configuration toggle to show them.
 * Thoughts? yoyo (talk) 14:18, 16 November 2017 (UTC)