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Originally Posted by Yournamehere
Funkychinaman makes a decent point. I figured they were all related, but apparently they aren't, so naturally I'd think we'd do seperate pages for them all, with maybe a see also: section for the rest of then, since they are relative to one another in that they were service guns during the same period, but not mecanically compatible or designed similarly.
As far as the S&W classic automatics go, if you're going to consolidate them, there should be a page for the 39 series, the 59 Series, the 69 series, and the 45 series. Those are the simplest categories, and all of the guns are more or less descended from all of those. For example, separating the 59 from the 459 from the 659 from the 5904 from the 5906 is kinda eh to me, since, apart from some minor changes, they are all just about the same gun.
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The problem in the past is that people have split apart pages and did a crap job of fleshing out the page. IF there is a large number of people who hold a 'misconception' that they are related, then you are obliged to write some sort of coherent introduction for the gun page to EXPLAIN why this is so. For one, tons of people put PPSh-41s and PPS-43s in the same lineage. So much so that tons of folks for years erroneously called them PPSH-43s (myself included).
As for the S&W pages, it's all about people finding the right gun when they are looking for it. No one intuitively knows that a certain line of guns are just improvements of the previous models. WE KNOW that because we've been researching it. But the lay public doesn't. We are working against IMFDB's craptacularly BAD search function. It doesn't do fuzzy searches like IMDB does. So remember that a gun can't be un-findable to the general public when you think long term about doing a massive reformat.