How is a "gun platform" defined?

[Evil Tim]

Originally Posted by commando552

The gun platform section is a relatively new thing that has started being used so there are no standards for it, but we should probably come up with some.

Actually it's not, it's a very old thing we kind of forget and then remembered again. It's primarily supposed to be, as far as I can tell, for identifying vehicles and listing their armament rather than listing all of it with separate gun entries, since obviously you're not going to find many tanks mounting non-standard guns.

I think what would be useful is an "other weapons" gallery page just to put all the images of weapons that don't qualify for their own pages in one place and avoid multiple uploads. Gun platforms should probably stick to live-action movies where they're physically present, unarmed vehicles should try to either get a screenshot with them in an ID in the caption or put them in trivia. Tanks you can usually handle by listing their coaxial weapon.

There's never going to be an internet movie artillery database, so if something appears and we know what it is, we should document it on the work's page. The rule is mainly about making gun pages for weapons which are unlikely to belong to a movie prop company; that would mean the biggest thing you could give a gun page to would probably be the 88mm FlaKs which some European armourers can get hold of.