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This is a notice about [[:Category:Computing/Computer Hardware task force articles needing expert attention]], which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated.<!-- Template:Expert-category-notice --> [[User:Iceblock|Iceblock]] ([[User talk:Iceblock#top|talk]]) 19:50, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
== Suggest to spin off [[Personal Computer Memory Card International Association]] (=the IT consortium) into article distinct from [[PC Card]] (=the hardware standard) ==
On 3 September 2013, [[User:Matthiaspaul]] made a major contribution to the [[PC Card]] article by creating the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PC_Card&type=revision&diff=571440489&oldid=570739248 History section] which, among the history proper of the PC Card standard, also includes detailed and well-supported information about its creators, viz. the PCMCIA Association.
While the Association as such and its (arguably) foremost standard are closely related, they are in my view nonetheless two distinct, well-definded topics on their own, and hence would deserve separate articles – linked back and forth, of course. This is by the way the approach taken in other-language WPs and would greatly increase the visibility of said information for other-language visitors coming from a (less detailed) "PCMCIA" / "Personal Computer Memory Card International Association" article in their own language, only to find to their surprise that there is technically no English equivalent at present!
I am aware that initially the two topics indeed had distinct articles in the English WP which were then [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Personal_Computer_Memory_Card_International_Association&type=revision&diff=373144445&oldid=372446694 merged in 2010], but at the time without any rationale or user discussion. So in the light of the arguments put forth above, and the development over recent years, I would suggest to separate the two topics again, and volunteer to do the handiwork involved.
Opinions/comments anyone? -- Thanks, [[User:HReuter|HReuter]] ([[User talk:HReuter|talk]]) 00:32, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
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