Talk:Types of swords

message: In this list, 'long sword' is listed as a two-handed weapon. According to the long sword article, this is not correct in most cases. Ought this not to be fixed? SpectrumDT 22:21, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long sword 

message: Considering they started in southwestern Turkey and were produced as far as Plovdiv, I'm placing them under "Europe". Alphros 02:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yataghan 

message: I've put this on a couple other pages already, but . . . I need help finding out what a dolon is and whether it fits this category. The reference to it is at Swordstick. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.95.23.122 (talk • contribs).
Me again. Anyone know where the San-Ku-Chu comes from? I think Okinawa, since that's where the Sai is usually traced back to, but I'm not sure.
And again. Turns out the link for Briquet goes to disambiguation, and there is no main page for the weapon. Anyone care to write a one-sentence stub for it? (I can't because I don't have an account.)
Once more. Ken and Barong have the same problem as Briquet. And Talibon has a similar problem: the link goes to a town's page, and there's evidently no page for the weapon.
And also, it really would be nice if Bastard sword had its own page instead of being a subsection of Longsword.
And also, does anybody know where the pappenheimer goes on the list?
I see a ton of sword-related pages out there. It seems most swords ARE war-swords. Also, a lot of this information is already in the Types of swords article.  Deatonjr 23:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ongoing list of things where help is needed

message: Not everyone out there can immediately identify a sword by its name, there should be a picture of every type of blade under the name of the blade so that users can quickly identify the swords they are looking for instead of haveing to sort through article and article until they find what they are looking for.
12.72.41.194 10:25, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: For the sword of Pier Gerlofs Donia, it says that it's "2,15" meters long and "7/8 kg." What's going on? --Another Andrew
*Why? The statistics sound much too large for a realistic two-handed sword? Well, while Pier Gerlofs Donia is certainly a historical figure, much of the story of his deeds has been mingled with legendary and mythical elements, and his sword is just the most notable instance of this mix-up. I've heard some scholars expressing their doubts about 1) the ascription of the weapon to the historical figure and 2) the identification of the sword as an actual battlefield weapon as opposed to a parade-/bearing-sword, but I don't have the reference immediately at hand. Let me look go and look for it first. Lay (talk) 09:09, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo? 

message: The section on European two-handed swords mentions the "Árije," which is not a hoplological type that I've ever heard of before. I've also been unable to find any further information (aside from fictional fantasy role-playing game statistics) for this type of sword. So, unless somebody can provide a source for the appearance and statistics of the "arije" as a real-world typological category of swords, I propose to delete the line from the list. 114.58.64.90 (talk) 09:58, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Árije?

message: Does a sword from Eragon of all things belong alongside 1000-year-old legends? Removed. Look for a "swords in popular culture" article if you want to read about it so bad. 66.207.23.59 (talk) 22:38, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Eragon? Seriously?

message: Dirk gets listed, but not a Tanto?
Cyberakuma13 (talk) 18:34, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A tanto is strictly a knife or dagger, while Bronze Age dirks were considered swords, and there were examples of dirks throughout their heyday with blade lengths of up to 21 inches, which qualifies as a short sword.  Naval dirks were also considered long daggers/short swords.  Q.E.D., dirk gets listed but not tanto. 12.233.146.130 (talk) 19:35, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Tanto

message: I know there's no official line between a short sword and a long dagger but the sgain dubh and dirk? Both were daggers both in size and use.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.197.252.79 (talk) 02:56, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  There's alot of daggers in there 

message: In the article Durga, in the end of the section 'The Divine belief' it is stated "The goddess cut off his trunk with her Khorgo and "...cutting Mahishasur's head down with her Khorgo. Could someone clarify what this Khorgo is? Is there an English language equivalent for it? Wiki-uk (talk) 13:19, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have created a redirect from Khorgo (weapon) to Sickle (Sickle-sword redirects to Khopesh). Wiki-uk (talk) 10:11, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a Khorgo? 

message: This article has always been a bit all over the place, but it needs a serious and coordinated rewrite.
The article is titled "Types of swords".  Specific named swords from folklore and fiction are not types of swords, they are specific swords.  This entire section should be deleted.  There are several other articles that already patronize this kind of fancruft.
Someone has begun a section titled "Swords of war".  With the exception of barely a half dozen items (of the several dozen named) from the earlier portion of the article, all of these swords are swords of war.  It seems somewhat ridiculous to create a subsection that reiterates some (but not nearly all) of the war swords already listed in the article.  In addition, the intro paragraphs for this unnecessary section makes a couple of claims that require citations or some kind of explanation. 12.233.146.130 (talk) 19:53, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serious editing needed 

message: The word "sword" does not mean, narrowly or otherwise, straight and double edged. If sabre and scimitar are included in the list anyway most of the introduction is meaningless.
Radj397 (talk) 17:43, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of "sword" 

message: the classification article has some problems, but essentially is an incomplete list of sword types. Tinynanorobots (talk) 01:05, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The point of this article was to bring together all the different pages describing things as longswords, shortswords, broadswords, and so on. It serves to teach our readers that these terms, though popular in fantasy fiction and role playing games, have no set meaning. I am not opposed to the proposed merge, so long as it makes clear that with each claim for a classification comes great ambiguity. bd2412 T 01:49, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The article on classification of swords actually gives the impression that those terms have specific meaning and is how experts classify swords. Tinynanorobots (talk) 04:43, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Classification 

message: Various Greek swords are placed under "Early History", and a couple of Roman swords are placed under "Western Swords". I hope everyone can see the obvious confusion here: the Greek and Roman swords in question are all early AND western, so they belong in both categories. Either we must re-name the categories or change the swords listed in them. 76.10.147.176 (talk) 03:14, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category naming confusion 

message: Middle east had straight swords as well.--24.52.201.176 (talk) 14:59, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle east had straight swords as well