Gun brand pages

[zackmann08]

So I just ran into a small issue that I wanted to get some input from people about. Ben41 Recently added the FN Forty-Nine to the site after the FN Herstal page had been added. It wasn't until I stumbled across the FN Forty-Nine that I went back and added it. Now you already have enough to deal with every time you add an occurrence of a gun (the corrosponding movie page, the gun page, the actor page, etc)...

My quesiton is this, should we list all guns made by a manufacturer even if they don't appear on the site yet? I know this site is NOT a gun encyclopedia which is defiantly something I want to be aware of. But, this will also help to identify guns that are used in a movie that have not yet been created on the site.

Alternatively, I can just keep an eye out for new pages and add them when I see them.

I'd be interested to hear thoughts. :-)

[MT2008]

I still just don't see the purpose or utility. And recently, as we've seen, it starts to look redundant when you're dealing with manufacturers such as Glock (the Glock manufacturer page serves almost no purpose that isn't already fulfilled by the existing Glock page on IMFDB).

[zackmann08]

Originally Posted by MT2008

I still just don't see the purpose or utility. And recently, as we've seen, it starts to look redundant when you're dealing with manufacturers such as Glock (the Glock manufacturer page serves almost no purpose that isn't already fulfilled by the existing Glock page on IMFDB).

I think what's hard (and please know I say this with ALL due respect), you and many of the other senior members here know SO much more about guns than man of the junior members here. I know at least a few of the admins work in Hollywood with guns everyday. For us n00bs, it is much harder to figure out what a gun is. If we have a well organized page we can go to that helps us figure it out then we feel a little bit smarter, the website gets another good entry and experts don't have to come along and correct where one of us has put a Beretta 92 that is actually a Taurus PT92. Just my 2 cents.

[Evil Tim]

Well, Bunni sees it, since there's now a manufacturer section in the wiki sidebar, so I think that particular debate boat has sailed.

[Evil Tim]

Just a note for these; where there are multiple manufacturers for something (eg Browning M2, M134) we should probably have a field for saying so on the page to avoid confusion.

[zackmann08]

Originally Posted by Evil Tim

Just a note for these; where there are multiple manufacturers for something (eg Browning M2, M134) we should probably have a field for saying so on the page to avoid confusion.

Totally agreed. Another good example would be the Desert Eagle.