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[Potato9999]

In the spring I had my Legendary Armorsmith make four iron mail shirts. Two were masterpiece, one was regular, and the other was well-crafted. It is now summer, and upon receiving word that one of my carpenters made a masterpiece wooden shield, I checked my armor bin to find every single iron mail shirt with X's around them, indicating they are "showing signs of wear". The shirts were never worn by anybody.

Can someone explain to me what happened?

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Refuse pile. Does your armor pile have any refuse-type items enabled?

[Potato9999]

Refuse pile. Does your armor pile have any refuse-type items enabled?

It does 

[Potato9999]

I've disabled all refuse on my stockpile, but there's still the issue of the shirts.

Should I just melt them down for iron, or can I still sell them to caravans in the condition they're in?

[Immortal-D]

I've disabled all refuse on my stockpile, but there's still the issue of the shirts.

Should I just melt them down for iron, or can I still sell them to caravans in the condition they're in?

Anything which can be sold to a Caravan, can be done so regardless of condition.  One of the running jokes in DF is that ☼xxClothingxx☼ can be sold for a tidy profit.  Essentially the merchants will pay a small fortune for Dwarven rags, b/c masterwork cloth, lol.  As for melting; since only a portion of the item counts, you need to keep track of which Smelter is dedicated to melting jobs, in order to accumulate the new bars.  Unless iron is super-rare, you're better off just selling the shirts.

[Potato9999]

Also, am I better off just transferring all weapons and armor to a stockpile within my barracks? I just finished building one and it doesn't look like anything gets moved automatically

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Building what? A weapon rack and armor stand? Those are heavily bugged and only rarely store stuff. I'm not even sure what stuff is intended to be stored there. Just use dedicated weapon/armor stockpiles wherever you need them most. (Usually the barracks.)

[Daris]

There's no need to stockpile weapons and armor.  Make it as you need it.  Melt the low-quality items and let the others stay in the workshop until they are assigned.  It will take bunches of armor to start cluttering the workshop, and clutter is not the end of the world anyway.  Clutter means you have too much stuff and need to back off making more.

[Immortal-D]

Personally, I like to keep a modest stockpile for when I inevitably draft all survivors in to a last-stand militia.

[PatrikLundell]

I would sell the worn masterworks, since the maker gets a negative shock when a masterwork is destroyed. If metal is in short supply, I'd then buy the same amount (or more) back from the caravan. The others I would melt down. In general, I try to make/melt everything produced until I've gotten the militia decked out in masterworks only (it also has the positive side effect of the militia not dumping their gear just before a fight because a shinier piece just came out from the forge). If my metal supply is limited (which it usually is, as I rely on Goblinite) I may halt the melt/reforge process when the resources get low (need to keep metal on hand for moods, if nothing else).