Talk:M202A1 FLASH

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This launcher was featured in the resident evil series and it deserves to be mentioned —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.104.226.174 (talk) 16:27, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Wasn't this rocket launcher used in Far Cry as well? --80.188.222.34 (talk) 08:49, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, but the people who tend to edit these articles hate mentioning video games. Movies are fine no matter how obscure they are since they're watched by 'real people', but since video games are only ever played by a handful of twelve year olds in Japan (or so the consensus by Wikipedia firearms editors would suggest) any mention of them on their articles is religiously purged. User:CSkankRabbit 16.48 6 May 2008 UTC —Preceding comment was added at 16:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Most movies don't deserve mention either. Wiki has notability standards, which mean that to warrant inclusion the item should somehow be notable. If we were to list every weapon in every game on the weapon's page then it would just be snaking lists of generally non-notable material. A link on the game or movie's page is more than enough in my opinion, as that would be where most enthusiastic gamers would head first anyhow. That is where these items should be mentioned, not on the pages of the respective weapons or vehicles, unless somehow notable. -- Thatguy96 (talk) 17:10, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Point conceded, although Wikipedia's policies regarding what can be concidered notable and what can't seems rather curious to me... It's their policy so I can't argue with it. User:CSkankRabbit 17.27 8 May 2008 UTC

And the fact that notability standards vary widely between editors adds further the confusion and lack of a real cohesive standard. That being said, my own personal feeling is that there is no problem with an entry on a game linking to the weapons page, but no good reason besides a person desire on the part of fans of a certain game to list every instance of every piece of equipment on the actual pages relating to that equipment. Of course, this is only my personal opinion. For good discussions on this issue I would direct you to talk and actions in the Minigun and Lockheed AC-130 articles.