So I was editing some Tinkers' Construct articles when it dawned on me. For mods where we have many components out of different materials, we have the issue that they overflow the navboxes and such. But making generalized pages for these items doesn't always work all that well, as some do have specific uses. So I've come up with a solution I nthink works pretty well.
For TiC I'm currently making articles for the many available Tool Rod items:
http://ftbwiki.org/Wooden_Tool_Rod
http://ftbwiki.org/Stone_Tool_Rod
http://ftbwiki.org/Iron_Tool_Rod
I think they do need their own articles as they each have different properties and some are used in specific crafting recipes.
But rather than listing these in the TiC navbox, I have added them all to the category Tool Rod. Then I've made the page http://ftbwiki.org/Tool_Rod which I did add to the TiC navbox. This page gives a (short) description of what a Tool Rod and has an SMW query listing all specific tool rods below.
I figured this would be a great solution to the issue with all of the GregTech gears, dusts, rods, and so on...
On a note, another reason why I think these all need their own page, is ore dictionary support. With more pages that have the oredict param in the Infobox, we can integrate the ore dictionary into the wiki a lot better.