Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Firearms

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:AS Val and VSS Vintorez#Requested move 3 June 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Captain Jack Sparrow (talk) 20:13, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:AS Val and VSS Vintorez#Requested move 3 June 2023]] 

message: As many in the firearms community know, Othais and Mae at candrsenal.com do a lot of solid historical research and are quite often cited on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?go=Go&search=%22C%26Rsenal%22&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1&ns10=1. In my longtime experience they are at least as reliable than Ian McCollum, if not more, not to speak about printed books on obscure WWI-era firearms. There has been some media coverage on their demonetization and an interview on Guns.com (neither discusses the historical research though). I have found some praise on blogs however: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/tag/crsenal/ https://www.billstclair.com/weaponsman.com/index.html%3Fp=13173 https://www.historicalfirearms.info/post/136132906224/crsenal-you-might-know-them-for-their-great-site
The problem is they don't pass the criteria set out at WP:SPS, and a WP:RSN discussion seems to be needed. What do you guys think? Ain92 (talk) 19:13, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reliability of C&Rsenal 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:PP-19 Vityaz#Requested move 14 July 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 08:27, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:PP-19 Vityaz#Requested move 14 July 2023]] 

message: FYI, your comments pro or con are invited at:
*Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TAPCO (mail order company)
--A. B. (talk • contribs  •  global count) 19:23, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  FYI: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TAPCO (mail order company)|Articles for deletion/TAPCO]] 

message: ISSF 10 meter air pistol has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 22:08, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good article reassessment for [[ISSF 10 meter air pistol]] 

message: I thought this was a done deal back in this 2022 RFC but obviously not. A handful of editors did another rfc with no sports projects input at all. And it's being challenged because we just noticed it. This could affect almost every single tennis and Olympic article we have, and goodness know how many other sports. Some may have already been moved it you weren't watching the article. And not just the article titles will be affected but all the player bios that link to the articles. Sure the links would be piped to the right place if thousands of articles moved, but if the wording in a bio still said 2023 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles or Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke that would likely need to be changed by hand. There is also talk of removing the ndash completely.
Perhaps this is what sports projects want and perhaps not. Either way I certainly don't want projects ill-informed as the last RfC was handled. Express your thoughts at  the following rfc. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:56, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#RfC_on_capitalization_after_a_colon_or_dash|Major RfC on capitalization]] of all our articles 

message: Hello, I wanted to bring this page to your attention, as I think it may overlap with physics of firearms and internal ballistics, but I'm not an expert. I also wasn't sure what the protocol was for adding WikiProject banners to the talk page. Thanks for taking a look! Exobiotic 💬 ✒️ 13:19, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Gun dynamics]] 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council § Determining the future of B-class checklists.  This project is being notified since it is one of the 82 WikiProjects that opted-in to support B-checklists (B1-B6) in your project banner. DFlhb (talk) 11:41, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: B-checklist in project template

message: Hey, just want to check in with some folks. I don't think the term assault weapons has been used correctly on a number of pages, and in the public discourse the term is politically charged and often used inaccurately. It might be best to put quotation marks around its use, or replace the term with "semi-automatic" weapons where applicable. There is a similar issue with "military-style" weapons being used to describe exclusively civilian-use firearms. 2601:444:382:FC20:1A4:401:E6E8:E98B (talk) 19:56, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerning language in gun laws pages 

message: Handguards seem to be addressed in a stub article forearm (firearm component), but it is addressed in much more detail in barrel shroud. Should the articles merge or perhaps one should be deleted? Hi (talk) 20:08, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Handguards (forearms) 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident#Requested move 29 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:58, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident#Requested move 29 February 2024]] 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Caliber conversion sleeve#Requested move 15 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject.  ASUKITE 15:43, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Caliber conversion sleeve#Requested move 15 May 2024]] 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Tel al-Sultan airstikes#Requested move 27 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 05:47, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Tel al-Sultan airstikes#Requested move 27 May 2024]] 

message: is currently rated as low-importance. Considering that this platform (the AK) is the most popular military-power long-arm in the world, and likely the most widely produced firearm in the world, this seems odd to me. It's so popular it has been featured on the flags of countries. It's so legendarily widely known to reputedly to be never jam under any circumstances. -- 65.92.244.143 (talk) 11:12, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Kalashnikov rifle]]

message: I have been asked a question about adding the WikiProject Firearms banner to crime-related articles that involve firearms use. I interpret the scope of this WikiProject to be about articles whose topics are about the firearms themselves, as well as related legislation, organisations, and craftspeople. While it does not explicitly say so, I interpret this cope as excluding articles about crimes where firearms are used or involved in the commission of the crime concerned. However, the section on criminal use appears open to mis-interpretation as it could be read as implying that crime-related articles that involve criminals using firearm are included in the project. I understand this section only addresses mentioning notable crimes that involve specific weapons to be mentioned in articles about those weapons, not a blanket inclusion of crime-related articles where firearms are used. What is actually intended here? Can the project scope have an explicit statement about whether crime-related articles that involve the use of firearms are excluded or included in this project. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 11:03, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: My own thought is that articles about mis-use of item are off topic from the item itself. For example, Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles is not listed at  Drunk driving North8000 (talk) 12:21, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crime-related articles involving firearms use