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editI moved this article from Cossack sabre to Shashka. Please don't use cut-'n'-paste page moves, because that loses the edit history, which is important for satisfying Wikipedia's GFDL licensing of contributions. —Michael Z. 2005-09-2 18:26 Z
- And, unlike me, don't move an article to a misspelled name. Thanks for fixing that, Mikkalai. —Michael Z. 2005-09-2 19:34 Z
The introductory article first says it is a guardless (without hilt) sword, then says the hilt was often decorated. The first sentence also says it is single-edged, then later in the same paragraph says it was double edged. Can't be both. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.127.191.14 (talk) 07:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
- The guard is a part of the hilt. Ergo, a sword can be guardless and still have a hilt. The way it is written now does not lead to that conclusion IMO. Observer31 (talk) 21:49, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Shashka or Sashka is originaly an Adyghe word, "Sashkoa" means long knife, "Sa" means knife "Shkoa" means big, long, great. Andynapso (talk) 10:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Kind of saber? Shashka users always insist that shashka is not a saber but a sword. They usually point out that the techniques for using a shashka are quite different from those with sabers. Shashka is more straightforward, shashka fencing is more like iai-do: it is about quickly drawing the weapon and delivering a blow. 213.87.134.254 (talk) 19:30, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
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Oddly Formatted
editI'm not sure if it's against etiquette but the picture on the top left seems very oddly placed. This article could probably use some love. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.46.244.133 (talk) 00:10, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Other spelling
editShasqua --Юе Артеміс (talk) 11:25, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
Revised article
editI have revised the article, removing a lot of non-encyclopaedic - frankly, 'fan-boy' - content and introduced a good deal of directly cited, more impartial and technical content. I have left some material in place which I could not verify, but which seems useful. Urselius (talk) 14:45, 11 March 2020 (UTC)