Talk:Walther P38

message: Archiving old discussions:
*Archive 1 available here. --I am Asamuel (talk) 14:36, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Archiving

message: There appears to be an edit war about whether or not to include a "popular culture" or "fiction" section in this article.  I personally have no preference, but I would remind editors that as soon as this kind of back and forth reverting starts, that it is essential to take things to the talkpage.  Work it out, see if you can find a compromise, point to previous discussions, but please stop playing tug of war with the article. --Elonka 14:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice try, but this has been discussed long ago and the concensus is clear on WP:firearms page.  No discussion needs to take place here as it's already signed, sealed, and delivered.  If you have a problem with THAT policy, take it to the WP:Firearms discussion page. Reverts should state that they are in accordance with the concensus and policy of WP firearms. --I am Asamuel (talk) 15:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  If there is a clear consensus somewhere, please provide a link to it, thanks. --Elonka 16:36, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see WP:MILMOS#POP, and WP:GUNS#Pop culture which was based off of WP:MILMOS#POP. Those are the two best examples I can find. I would show you the talkpage discussion that led to the MILMOS guideline, but I don't have time to go through roughly 80 archives to find the exact discussion that led to the consensus.--LWF (talk) 16:57, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Popular culture

message: I just wanted to get feedback on adding Megatron to the media section. It's quite infamous, and I could even cite news articles on people arrested for having Megatron's where the police thought it was a real gun. Mathewignash (talk) 14:31, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, we have been over this before, see the section directly above this and the archive. It boils down to this: The P38 is important to the toy, the toy however is not important to the real P38. If you can find a reliable source stating otherwise, you may add the content back (without that non-free image). Until then, it is irrelevant in this article and will be removed. You may find WP:GUNS#Pop culture and WP:MILMOS#POP interesting. — DanMP5 16:17, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Megatron P38 in media section

message: The toy introduced people to the gun. I'd also mention the gun being the signature weapon of Lupin 3. if it links, and makes sense to do so. Why not? -Sparky (talk) 16:55, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: why not?

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hi, I have a West German P-38 with a date stamp of 5/65. So the "Variants" section is incorrect when it says production stopped in '63. Cowcharge (talk) 16:15, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: That claim isn't footnoted, so there's no way of knowing where it cam from. I'll put a citation request on it. Felsic2 (talk) 21:27, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production dates 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Walther P38's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Smith":
From MG 08: 
From Vz. 24: Smith, p. 295
Reference named "Bishop":
From Panzerschreck: .
From FG 42: 
From Beretta Model 38: 
From Panzerbüchse 39: 
From StG 44:  
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 03:44, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Walther P38]] 

message: According to the source (Scarlata's article) the use of this pistol by Japan is not mentioned. You can read the article (The P.38 proved to be a rugged, reliable handgun, although it was never available in great enough numbers to replace the P.08. The Germans also provided limited quantities of P.38s to their erstwhile allies, Italy, Croatia and Hungary. ... When the West German army — the Bundeswehr — was organized in the 1950s, the new Walther plant at Ulm-Donau began production of a P.38 variant with a lightweight, aluminum alloy frame that was adopted as the Pistole 1 (P1). The P1 was also sold in substantial numbers to the armies and police forces of Austria, Chile, Columbia, Ghana, Norway, Portugal, Pakistan, Peru, South Africa, Uruguay and Venezuela.) Shadowcaster (talk) 02:35, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  About Walther P38 in [[Japan]] 

message: I used to own a WWII P-38, and a solid chunk of steel it was too! I also bought a post-war P-1 with the aluminum frame, and it was a lot lighter, as well as being much better finished. (Accuracy?... better left unmentioned and the reason I eventually sold both!)
Just wonder why no listing for the weight? Virtually every other handgun has this entered in the Info Box, and the P-38 was standardized, so it did not vary, unlike other pistols with different lengths and calibers (e.g. Walther PP/PPK: where there is a lot of variation).
Would be helpful if the Mass were entered in the Info Box for comparison to others... just saying.
All the best,
James
203.150.179.122 (talk) 16:46, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Added. Thanks for pointing that out. Loafiewa (talk) 16:58, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Mass listed??