[Mazryonh]

I'd like to know what kind of order the weapons classes should go in for pages with a table of contents for the weapons (I've helped the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and the Battlefield 2 pages with a table of contents, as well as the SWAT 4 page which I'm creating. Obviously these should normally be reserved for movies/TV shows or games with lots of real-life guns, but even so the "best order" for the weapons classes remains in doubt for me.

In my mind I would normally go from generally smallest to generally largest in physical size for firearms, then towards explosive devices and other categories. This would result in:

1. Handguns (semiautomatic and fully-automatic)
2. Submachine Guns/Personal Defense Weapons
3. Shotguns (because they can be both compact or very long, but are in general larger than SMGs)
4. Assault Rifles/Battle Rifles (because in general they are longer than SMGs or PDWs)
5. Sniper Rifles/Designated Marksman Rifles (where barrel length really counts)
6. Machine Guns (because they are considered to be "heavier" than rifles in military designation and are support weapons)
7. Hand-thrown grenades
8. Launchers (whether for grenades, rockets, or guided missiles)
9. Mounted weapons (for stationary mountings or vehicle mounted weapons)

I'm open to suggestions for differing opinions.

The Battlefield 2 page currently lumps in the vehicle-mounted weapons like the Bushmaster Chaingun into the Machine Guns section, but does a game like that really deserve its own "Mounted Weaponry" section? We really don't want to end up adding tank cannons or the like to this wiki, do we?

Furthermore, alphabetically arranging the weapons by name would help, but is it something the sysops here would prefer? The Modern Warfare 2 page, for instance, has a table of contents but is not alphabetically arranged for each section. Whichever the sysops do end up agreeing on, it should be posted somewhere prominent and the new policy readily enforced.