Forum:Convoluted histories of merger

So the recent edit of LTI into LTC brings this up. The fire apparatus industry involves a lot of big fish eating little fish. In the case of LTC which recently acquired ALF's Aerial Division, which itself had acquired (at a minimum) Snorkel, and AI (which had acquired LTI). So the resulting jumble brings together Snorkel (1958-98), LTI (1973-1986), Simon-LTI (1986-99), Aerial Innovations (1993-99), and American LaFrance (1904-2014). That seems like a lot to squeeze into the page of a 2 year old company. Personally, it seems like it would make sense in a situation like this to keep the individual companies more or less to their own page, up to the point of merger, and carry on from that point under the remaining company. With the ability to link to the appropriate pages it just seems cleaner and less confusing. Of course defunct companies are a little easier to track since we know their whole story (unless they are zombie phoenix's like ALF that just keep coming back).--Sodacreek343 (talk) 20:05, May 14, 2017 (UTC)