Talk:Nintendo Integrated Research & Development

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Splitting proposal

@Onel5969: I propose that section Research & Development Department be split into a separate page called Nintendo Research & Engineering. The content of the current page seems off-topic and these sections are large enough to make their own page. ~ Arkhandar ^{(message me)} 18:40, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support – The proposed article already existed under Nintendo Research & Engineering Department, but when the department was merged with the Nintendo IRD division, the former article was merged with this one. This makes no sense since they don't share history together and there was no Research & Development Department to speak of in the IRD division. ~ Arkhandar ^{(message me)} 18:48, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Since the division seems to be minor, if you remove the infobox (articles should only ever have one) then it lacks information and thus should not be split. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 19:08, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Thanks for the ping, Arkhandar, and thanks for opening this discussion. As per WP:SPLIT, this page only has 455 words, far below the metric required for a size split. The other type of split, a content split, imho, begs to keep the two departments on the main integrated page. I agree with Dissident93 that the second infobox should be removed.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 23:17, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Onel5969: I understand that the article is quite barren. But the thing is that the only thing that the two departments have in common is them belonging to Nintendo and the R&E department being merged into the IRD division in 2012. The current structure however gives off the impression that the IRD had an R&E department that developed handheld consoles, which isn't and never was the case. ~ Arkhandar ^{(message me)} 23:24, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Arkhandar: -- to me that seems even more of a reason not to split. That fact can be highlighted in the combined article, so there's no chance of that confusion.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 00:56, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]