Important POINTS for new members.......

[MT2008]

Nice job...you're WAY more articulate than I am on a lot of these points.

Speaking of which...I still haven't figured out how I want to present the rules for new users. I thought about a link on the main page...what do you say?

[MoviePropMaster2008]

8) Bad screengrabs CAN be replaced by better shots.
If your screengrab is squished (uncorrected anamorphic image) or has black bars on the top and bottom or is really off color (i.e. greenish or pinkish hue), don't be surprised if someone either corrects it or replaces the image with a newer and better one. Don't take it personally. Of course it is wrong to replace a clear screengrab with a blurrier or lower resolution one (don't think I'm nuts. It HAS happened.....)

9) Fictional Firearms must be based in reality.
Anything that is obviously fake or fantasy does not merit it's own page (however it can have an entry on the show's page). For example: Star Trek can have an entry for the numerous live guns that have appeared on the show, BUT, there is no place for a Hirogen hunting rifle or a Ferengi disrupter or a Type II phaser because the public will never wonder if these are real weapons.

A Fictional firearm must be one of the following:
a) A fictional weapon built on a real one. (Examples: The Aliens M41A Pulse rifle or the Starship Troopers Morita rifle).
b) A hypothetical weapon that could exist in real life (Example: the Composite gun in "In the Line of Fire" or the rogue sniper rifle in "Wanted")
c) A fictional gun that the public could 'think' exists in the real world ... but does not (Example: the Samaritan from "Hellboy", the Codpiece Revolver from "Desperado")

Sci Fi weapons that are particle beam or energy weapons are not allowed. No Space 1999 "Staple gun" laser pistols, No Star Trek Phasers, No Star Wars LightSabres, etc. etc. If it is obviously a fabricated scifi fantasy weapon, then it does NOT merit it's own page. This is not the Fanboy scifi space or fantasy weapon site. Sorry.

10) If the gun has not appeared in anything, it does not deserve a page.
This applies to all those obscure or the latest cutting edge weapons or unusual frontline weapons from other countries, that no Armorer that I know of has access to. Now when it appears in something, THEN make a page for it. Making more and more pages for guns that have not appeared in any movie, television show, video game or anime is just cluttering the site. I don't want members to have to wade through NON-relevant pages to find the information they are looking for. This is NOT the Gun-pedia or History of the Guns of the world site. If the weapon has no ties to movies or other entertainment media, it doesn't belong here. Sorry.

This one may be controversial, since I have posted pages for Blank adapted guns that are in active movie Armorer inventories, but have not appeared in a film that I can verify yet. I did this because it is much more likely that they will or already have appeared and thought that having good pics of them will help members identify them when they are being used. If members think I should, I can delete my own gun pages if they think it is hypocritical.

Thoughts?

[MT2008]

I like!

Should we just make a page for this now? I've been holding off long enough, and yours is better-written.

We can edit the Main Page and link to it from there.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Here is one that has been bothering me for a while and may cause some friction between me and other admins/mods....

11) No Spoilers
There is always a way to phrase a sentence or select your screen grabs where the gun is showcased but IMPORTANT PLOT TWISTS are not revealed. The page is about what gun appeared in what film .... NOT some important plot point that 'character A shoots Character B with it who turns out to be his long lost twin brother and the father of the baby he left on the carousel thinking that it was a discarded burrito ... oh and Character A is dying of cancer and he doesn't know it yet. " Look. We don't need a rehashing of the entire movie to see that a certain gun was used in the movie. Some reveals are acceptable, but important twists or secrets or reveals should remain unspoiled for those visitors who happen to see a page.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

12) Title formatting suggestons....
(a) in the case of both a video game and a movie having the exact same title If the movie came first, (i.e. The Punisher, etc.) the film gets the unmodified title. The Video game is listed as the title PLUS (VG) to denote "Video Game". If the Video Game came first (Far Cry, Doom, etc.) the movie is modified to place the year of American Release in parentheses, i.e. (Far Cry (2009)) for the movie version.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

12) Title formatting suggestons....
(a) in the case of both a video game and a movie having the exact same title If the movie came first, (i.e. The Punisher, etc.) the film gets the unmodified title. The Video game is listed as the title PLUS (VG) to denote "Video Game". If the Video Game came first (Far Cry, Doom, etc.) the movie is modified to place the year of American Release in parentheses, i.e. (Far Cry (2009)) for the movie version.

Same case when discussing remakes versus originals. The original should just have the regular title, while the remake should have the date in the title. Like, "War of the Worlds" (George Pal's 1953 version) and "War of the Worlds (2005)" (Steven Spielberg's version).

[Orca1_9904]

13) Stay within the scope of the site! This is the International Movie FIREARMS DataBase. True, some non-gun weapons such as the "sticky bomb" from Saving Private Ryan or Molotov cocktails in countless other films have been adde, but users should strongly avoid entries for things such as hand to hand melee weapons. Bayonets and the like are acceptable so long as they're mentioned with the weapon they're mounted on in a particular appearance, but DO NOT make entries or articles for these weapons by themselves!