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What about AK47 In popular culture like Video Games? edit
Can you expand the AK47 Page for the In popular culture like video games? Pedroj234 legos (talk) 20:45, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
- Per WP:MILPOP: "'In popular culture' sections should be avoided unless the subject has had a well-cited and notable impact on popular culture." This means we need to cite reliable, secondary, published sources that covers a particular game's impact on popular culture, not just a source that says the AK-47 was used in such and such video games. In most cases, video games aren't notable to the AK-47. What is needed is a fairly extensive article from a reliable source that examines the AK-47's impact in video games, and names several specific video games or game.series that showcase the AK-47. What we don't need is a list of every video game in which the AK-47 is seen or used, as that is not what Wikipedia is supposed to do. There are probably plenty of other websites on the Internet that do that already. BilCat (talk) 23:44, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
- OK, time to ask a "what abouty". How about listing AK-47 in various heraldics? Say, AK-47 on Mosambique's flag? 81.89.66.133 (talk) 09:00, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
Origins - doesn't mention an earlier "avtomat" from Russian Empire edit
There is quite a similarity between an "avtomat" from 1940's and another "avtomat" from 1910's. Fedorov Avtomat uses 6.5mm Arisaka rounds, notorious to be weaker than 7.62 rifle rounds (2,665 J vs 3,500+ J of 7,62/.303/.30-06). How comes a Russian gun from 1910's uses Japanese rounds from 1897, you may ask? 1904-1905 war trophies!
Yet the article sorta focuses on how the Soviets were impressed by Hugo Schmeisser's Sturmgewehr, without mentioning a certain earlier automatic gun known as "avtomat" and its similarity (25-rounds box, 2,665 J energy; on par with assault rifles). The article sorta praises StG guns to be a novel and unique type of guns; that's what bothers me. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 09:16, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
- Irrelevant comment: In Russia, nickname "шмайсер" ("schmeisser") is, somewhat erroneously, used for MP-40 SMGs. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 09:16, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
How about we split the article? edit
Throughout this article, "AK-47" is used in at least three meanings:
- what Kalashnikov called "AK-47", types 1-2-3, that is - prototypes and pre-production models;
- that, plus what was the first actual production model of AK-type rifle - AKM, or simply AK, although we already have a separate article for AKM;
- or any automatic rifle from the AK family in general, although - you guessed it! - we already have a Kalashnikov rifle article.
And yeah-yeah, WP:COMMONNAME, yadda-yadda. We should lie about what "AK-47" actually is. I understand that. I totally dig that! But still, this article can't keep its lie straight. And people that want to know what exactly Kalashnikov meant by "AK-47" will be left a bit puzzled after reading it. I think that's a bit of a problem. So, how about we have two versions of this article: AK-47 (or whatever is called in Western media as such), where we could keep lying incomprehensibly for the sake of WP:COMMONNAME, and AK-47 (the real thing), for people that actually want to know something about firearms? 95.48.23.137 (talk) 15:22, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
- The article is only 146,023 bytes, I think it's covering it pretty well. If you have any actual constructive ideas for improvement to the existing verbiage, by all means, give them. Dennis Brown 2¢ 09:00, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
The AK47 features in the lyrics of "Murder on My Mind" by YNW Melly: "I wake up in the morning, I got murder on my mind, AK-47's, MAC-11, Glocks, and .9s, And all these pussy niggas hating, tryna knock me off my grind, But I can't let 'em do it, I got murder on my mind." 86.175.165.164 (talk) 17:56, 21 March 2024 (UTC)