Talk:Digital card

landing space for merge of 'Magnetic strip card' into 'Digital card'

Although Magnetic stripe card is better sourced, and explains using IBM.com sourcing how the magstrip card was developed, the name Digital card seems like it has more usefullness/has a better future, as seen in 2022. Nuts240 (talk) 21:04, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

some of this material is borderline CopyVio (I looked at the original text and what's in wiki). The hot iron part seems like worth retaining, albeit reworded to not be a word-for-word copy. Much of the rest can be handled via DELETE/Link-to-LookBack. Nuts240 (talk) 02:30, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Scope?

Magnetic cards were used in mass storage systems well before consumer products such as credit cards, and there are computer storage articles with {{main|magnetic card}}. Should this article describe that use, or should it have a {{distinguish}} template? Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 15:39, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Split?

Since this article is called "Digital card", I feel that most of the article from "Magnetic stripe card" onwards belongs in another article, such as Magnetic stripe card — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 08:32, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Hmmm. Magnetic stripe card was merged here back in 2022. I can't find any discussion about the logic for doing that. It makes sense to undo the merge, so that this article is only about virtual cards — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 08:36, 7 April 2026 (UTC)