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Requested move
The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
this article, as it is about the Pontiac M39 cannon, is better suited with in Pontiac M39 cannon instead of the current name. This is due to the standard way of referring to weapons as maker-model, such as
Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, and to keep this article in line with the standard way of referring to other weapon systems, such as
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle instead of F-15 Eagle. As the article itself refers to this gun as Pontiac M39 cannon then this move actually represents a minor edit intended to keep this article coherent with itself. --
Mecanismo |
Talk18:34, 1 July 2011 (UTC)reply
First of all, please don't edit my post. It's rude and disrespectful. Regarding the article move, the article explicitly refers to the weapon's name as Pontiac M39 cannon. As in wikipedia the name of the article tends to reflect the subject's name then as apparently there is no objection to it's name then I don't see why there should be any objection to any edit which reflects that. If you disagree with any reference to the Pontiac M39 cannon name then before objecting to it you should be able to demonstrate that that is not in fact the weapon's name. And by the way, if you don't like discussing changes and you prefer to strong-arm your way out of a disagreement then I suggest you reconsider your participation in a site which is based on discussing changes. --
Mecanismo |
Talk19:00, 1 July 2011 (UTC)reply
I don't see how your rudeness is warranted. If you are taking something so irrelevant as a page move as something so profoundly personal that inherits this level of animosity then I must suggest that you take a breather before posting. Regarding the page move,
Wikipedia:Be bold. If you take the time to check the logs while you revert edits then you would have noticed that on the 2nd move that you reverted I also added to the talk page a discussion on this move attempt, with hopes to reach a consensus. The reason why I moved the article to
Pontiac M39 cannon was because the reasons put forth to revert it the 1st time were debatable, which is registered in
talk:Pontiac M39 cannon. Regarding your accusation of vandalism, if you take the time to read what you wrote on my talk page you will realize that you described my action as "move a page maliciously". So, again, try to keep your temper and try not to be rude to other fellow wikipedians --
Mecanismo |
Talk19:40, 1 July 2011 (UTC)reply
Mec, you need to read
WP:COMMONNAME. The "official name" is trumped by the "common name"; that's our policy here. Thus, "Bill Clinton" not "William Jefferson Clinton", etc. Your argument is stronger as an argument that the F-15 and F-16 articles are under the wrong names. Dave, on the other hand, should calm down a little (as he admits on my talk page). --
Orange Mike |
Talk19:41, 1 July 2011 (UTC)reply
You have a point, and I don't disagree with that. Yet, this very article refers to the weapon as "The Pontiac M39". So, either the article itself is wrong in referring to the weapon as Pontiac M39 cannon instead of simply M39 cannon, or, as in the case of
Oerlikon 20 mm cannon,
Colt Mk 12 cannon and others, it is reasonable and desirable to rename this article to reflect the gun's name. --
Mecanismo |
Talk19:48, 1 July 2011 (UTC)reply
Oppose I am not sure which form of the name is actually more common. But similar cannon articles only use the military designation and name without manufacturer/other name in front. I was going to list the M61, M197, M230, and others as examples, but Wee Curry Monster already did so. -
Fnlayson (
talk)
20:37, 2 July 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment I do see Mec's point, but in this instance, I have to disagree. His "named" examples are better known by the brand name, as is the
Bofors, & for a reason. I'd tend to name the page Pontiac M39, myself, but I expect to be in the minority, as usual. ;p
TREKphilerany time you're ready, Uhura 01:27, 3 July 2011 (UTC)reply
Comment - Someone asked me to look into this subject. The "M39" cannon was originally called the "Pontiac M39". But over time it was just called the "M39". While I have found not absolute proof that Philco-Ford or Ford Aerospace produced the M39, Ford Aerospace developed an improved version of the M39 with a much higher firing rate for the defunct F-20 called "Tigerclaws". And while I would have to go through hundreds of folders to find the info sent me by Ford Aerospace, it did show one of its products as the "M39". And it seem that DoD assigned single barrel (or twin single barrel cannons (ie you should see the 30m cannon they designed for the program won by the A-10) to Ford-Aerospace and the rotary cannons like the M61 to GE. Btw, the information on the "Tigerclaws" is in the book "Rapid Fire" page 78 by Anthony G. William printed by Airlife Publishing Ltd in 2000
ISBN1-84037-122-6. And an article in "Flying Review International" August 1964 titled "Northrop F-5 - A Different Kind of Fighter" states that M39 (in 1964) has a design life of 10,000 rounds, but that the barrel had a life of only 1,500 rounds, and then have to be replaced. Hope this information if of some help. Jack
Jackehammond (
talk)
04:43, 5 July 2011 (UTC)reply
The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
Noticed this re: the M39 on a
USAF web page: "Various manufacturers produced over 35,500 copies of the cannon for use on versions of the F-100, F-101, and other American fighter aircraft." Cheers,
W. B. Wilson (
talk)
11:16, 10 July 2011 (UTC)reply
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