Talk:Siderurgy

Oppose merge of steel into this. This very brief article might perhaps be merged into steel. However Siderurgy is not a usual English term, but the transliteration of a French one. The best solution would be to leave this brief article to explain the term, with suitable cross-references to articles on iron and steel. Peterkingiron 01:20, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the 'merge' tag for the reasons stated above. Having another major article on herrous metallurgy will only lead to duplication and contrdictory articles. Peterkingiron 15:07, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Wrong Etym

It's not from Latin 'sidus' (star), but from Greek 'sideros' (iron)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Value
In view of the recent tag placed by user:Wizard191, I have to say that I agree that I am not sure of the value of this article. It is possible that it should be transwikified to the dictionary or converted to a redirect (perhaps to ironworks). It reached its present state when I intervened to discourage its expansion, because there are better articles covering the subject elsewhere. This has left it as a sort of disambiguation page, which is what the ironworks is. Having spent a lot of time merging and otherwise eliminating unnecessary duplication, which can easily have the result that articles start contrdicting each other, I was reluctant to see another lot of duplicates developing. I am open to suggestions on the best course of action. Peterkingiron (talk) 20:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It's pointless to have an article about a concept already covered. I've redirected to ironwork -- Whpq (talk) 01:28, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You actually redirected to ironworks not ironwork. What you did is probably the most appropriate.  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:52, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Why do you feel ironwork is more appropriate? In thinking some more, I'd actually be more inclined to redirect to Smelting. -- Whpq (talk) 23:37, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I did not express what I meant well, and have altered it. I do NOT think ironwork appropraite.  Peterkingiron (talk) 14:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, it appears we both can't type worth beans! :) But the result was what was intended.  I really did intend to redirect to the plural, and you agree that's the right place.  Cheers! -- Whpq (talk) 14:09, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed! Peterkingiron (talk) 14:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)