Talk:Weapons

Incorrect naming of categories and weapons

Across the entire wiki ARs are listed as "Assault Rifles" while the in-game name for the category is "Automatic Rifles." Similarly, a number of weapons use their real-life designation, such as the AK-74 and AK-15, despite the game listing them as AK74 and AK15. Aside from being inaccurate to the game, this is also inconsistent with guns like the ScorpionEVO, whose real-life designation is Scorpion Evo 3, and the wiki lists as Scorpion EVO. I feel that a wiki should always use the actual in-game name for articles, and reflect it as accurately as possible, above all other names to ease locating the article for the everyday user. Due to the huge amount of editing it would take to fix these issues, namely the renaming of articles and categories, I decided against going through with these edits without first seeking input from other users.

Matsczon (talk) 10:13, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

these are valid points and I have a few reasons for why its like this 1. one of the senior mods ran the wiki before I took over, my naming scheme is more inline with the ingame version, example: ScorpionEVO

2. i feel the names such as AK-74 and AK-15 should stay the way they are as it makes the page more legible and readable rather than squishing numbers next to letters. AK15 AK74 looks weird

3. there are a lot of ingame stuff without proper names such as the door guns for the blackhawk and mounted guns for humvees and tanks so the IRL depiction is what we use as we can just leave it empty or unnamed

tldr: i think AK-74 AK-15 should stay as they are, "automatic rifles" sounds silly, and irl depictions is often necessary to make the wiki look and "read" better

(God ferny (talk) 17:23, 9 August 2023 (UTC))

Reply to Matsczon and God ferny

I support the idea the page names should at least be the in-game names of the weapons. It is currently speculated that the weapon names will be altered in the future (it has been suggested by patreon supporters to the devs for reference). I can support the articles in their paragraphs using "Scorpion Evo/EVO" over "ScorpionEVO" for the sake of legibility but page names should be the in-game name. As for hyphen names like AK-74, AK-15, I wish to keep their page names as their in-game names. I think the devs will make them hyphenated in-game but for now, we should adhere to in-game names until they are changed.

Whilst some in-game items do not have names, they are likely to be added by the devs at some point. Until then we wait.

"Automatic rifles" may be a bit antiquated but there is reason for it. It encompasses all automatic rifles regardless of calibre. "Battle rifles" such as the FAL and SCAR-H, and "Assault rifles" such as the ACR and M4A1. Unless the in-game classification changes I see no reason to change it. (PhantomForcesUser (talk) 03:44, 11 August 2023 (UTC))

I only write here man, my opinion easily does not matter if the community wants it i will write it (God ferny (talk) 13:09, 10 August 2023 (UTC))

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