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Old 05-04-2010, 01:25 AM
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Default Proposed new rule=no "unknowns" on the article page

You see it in alot of pages on the site. Honestly though I think it just looks bad and sloppy. I mean the purpose of this site is to tell visitors what a certain gun in a movie is. Not to just spit back an image or a crappy description that tells you nothing. I think all unknown weapons should be restricted to the discussion/talk page until they are identified. Otherwise it just looks amateurish.

A few examples of pages with "unknowns"

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Unknown#Unknown_shotgun

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Tango...rreled_shotgun

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Wire%...Barrel_Shotgun
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Old 05-04-2010, 02:07 AM
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The discussion pages don't get that much traffic. So a viewer who just might happen to know what such and such unknown gun is, won't see it. That's pretty hypothetical, but I rarely check discussion pages when I'm browsing.
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:13 AM
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Thought about that too, but presentation is more important in my mind.
In much of the case the "unknown" is left up indefinitely and it looks amateurish and sloppy in the end.
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:18 AM
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Well the point is to put up the unknowns so that someone on the site can help ID the gun.
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:38 AM
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I dunno...if we did this, people looking for the double-barrel shotguns in a particular movie would never be able to find them.

Presentation is important (which is why I get so annoyed at people who can't follow the proper page format), but never forget...when all's said and done, we're still a Wiki. Everyone knows that Wikis are by definition always incomplete at best, and factually inaccurate at worst. Nobody reads a Wiki expecting perfection, so it just seems like it's splitting hairs.
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Old 05-04-2010, 03:52 AM
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I've been here for a long time and sometimes I always find at least one gun in a movie that I can't ID. So I make an unknown section so someone else who can recognize it right away, point it out and I'll change it.
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