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I think however that the Doom movie gun page needs to be restricted to ONLY the Doom movie gun and not any of the videogames. |
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But really, it should be no more than that, I think.
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Just make a trivia mention on the Doom movie page itself. A lot of people do that in other pages.
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So we are Nuking that godforsaken BFG page ?
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I sure hope so
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No, we're not. Go find a page that actually needs some work doing to it rather than complaining when someone puts a lot of work into something that doesn't appeal to you personally. If MPM won't delete Einhander on the basis the contributor put in a lot of effort, there is no basis whatsoever for doing anything to the BFG page.
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I'm the one who wouldn't delete Einhander because I'm too fucking nice. It probably should be removed.
But the BFG page is no big deal, I think this is getting blown too far out of proportion. How about we search the site for pages that can be prioritized as 100% uneccessary with little to no effort instead. Tim put plenty of effort into building the BFG page, so let him have it.
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Yeah nuke Einhander as well.
Just because someone put alot of work into a page does not negate the fact that it does not belong on this site. Honestly though pages like the BFG in my opinion are the types of heaping piles of crap that need to be prioritized in their elimination from this site more than any other page. Last edited by AdAstra2009; 08-25-2009 at 01:37 AM. |
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Ask yourself, though: what is someone going to want to see when they click on a link to a page about the BFG? Answer: more information about the BFG. It happens there is a lot more information about it than could sensibly be contained in a movie article, and of the things I'd imagine most people would be interested in is comparison of the original to the prop; the BFG is unique in that there are six previous versions, which all work differently. While it's closer to one of Gunmaster's trivia articles than a regular gun article, documenting the incarnations leading up to the one seen in the movie provides context for the prop version; if I get around to getting a couple of extra screencaps of the movie version actually firing, it can also be used to explain one of the errors in the movie depiction [that either Doom BFG would have killed Reaper even if he dodged as depicted]. Really, expanding on influence, history and construction is the best thing to do on fictional weapon pages, since very few of them appear directly in any other movies [let alone have animations lifted verbatim from one game to another one in an entirely seperate series made by another company, as per the Half-Life: Opposing Force Displacer using the BFG explosion animation]. Since this one started out in a videogame it's rather backwards compared to most, but certainly it's within the scope of good article construction to show the various things that the movie prop is supposed to be another version of, and describe how they work compared to it. I should also add that the first BFG was apparently also a prop, though I haven't been able to find a picture of it; Doom's weapons were digitised from photographs of the chief animator, Kevin Cloud, holding them. The pistol and shotgun were toys they got from their local Toys 'R' Us, the chainsaw was real [it belonged to Creative Director Tom Hall's girlfriend], and the rest mock-ups. This is the real Doom chainsaw, in fact. John Romero says they kept it in a bowl because it leaked oil. Also, MPM did say Einhander should stay, I thought I remembered that right. From my talk page: Quote:
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They fired off balls of green plasma, no-one in their right mind would think that is real!!! Stuff like that is akin to Alien Death-ray guns. The Eraser EM-1 fired off aluminum bullets or something along those lines according to what i've read so some people could conceivably think it was a real gun. |
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