Talk:Pulse rifle - Revision history

Emvee: typo sorry

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typo sorry

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	==M41A Pulse Rifle note==		==M41A Pulse Rifle note==
	While I'm an enormous fan of the M41A Pulse Rifle and it's almost certain that it had an influence on later weapon naming (especially Pretender Jazz's ion pulse gun becoming a generic pulse rifle in Dreamwave) I feel that this note is a bit overblown considering we now have Sunstreaker's electron pulse gun on this page. Seems weird to be speculating whether ''Transformers'' pulse guns are patterned after M41A Pulse Rifles when they ~~which~~ predate ''Aliens'' by two years. --[[User:Emvee\|Emvee]] ([[User talk:Emvee\|talk]]) 13:44, 10 December 2025 (EST)		While I'm an enormous fan of the M41A Pulse Rifle and it's almost certain that it had an influence on later weapon naming (especially Pretender Jazz's ion pulse gun becoming a generic pulse rifle in Dreamwave) I feel that this note is a bit overblown considering we now have Sunstreaker's electron pulse gun on this page. Seems weird to be speculating whether ''Transformers'' pulse guns are patterned after M41A Pulse Rifles when they predate ''Aliens'' by two years. --[[User:Emvee\|Emvee]] ([[User talk:Emvee\|talk]]) 13:44, 10 December 2025 (EST)

Emvee at 18:44, 10 December 2025

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	:: Threw together a [[User:Dinobot_Scorn/Sandbox\|test draft]] before turning all those pages into redirects, just missing the toy section as the whole Sunstreaker/Sideswipe bio switch-up thing makes it a little finicky. --[[User:Dinobot Scorn\|Dinobot Scorn]] ([[User talk:Dinobot Scorn\|talk]]) 21:41, 27 November 2025 (EST)		:: Threw together a [[User:Dinobot_Scorn/Sandbox\|test draft]] before turning all those pages into redirects, just missing the toy section as the whole Sunstreaker/Sideswipe bio switch-up thing makes it a little finicky. --[[User:Dinobot Scorn\|Dinobot Scorn]] ([[User talk:Dinobot Scorn\|talk]]) 21:41, 27 November 2025 (EST)

			==M41A Pulse Rifle note==
			While I'm an enormous fan of the M41A Pulse Rifle and it's almost certain that it had an influence on later weapon naming (especially Pretender Jazz's ion pulse gun becoming a generic pulse rifle in Dreamwave) I feel that this note is a bit overblown considering we now have Sunstreaker's electron pulse gun on this page. Seems weird to be speculating whether ''Transformers'' pulse guns are patterned after M41A Pulse Rifles when they which predate ''Aliens'' by two years. --[[User:Emvee\|Emvee]] ([[User talk:Emvee\|talk]]) 13:44, 10 December 2025 (EST)

Dinobot Scorn at 02:41, 28 November 2025

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	: Sounds fine to me... but I would ALSO like to propose we start using THIS formatting for the Toys section of these pages: [[User:M_Sipher/Sandbox:WeaponPageToysSection]] --[[User:M Sipher\|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher\|talk]]) 15:48, 27 November 2025 (EST)		: Sounds fine to me... but I would ALSO like to propose we start using THIS formatting for the Toys section of these pages: [[User:M_Sipher/Sandbox:WeaponPageToysSection]] --[[User:M Sipher\|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher\|talk]]) 15:48, 27 November 2025 (EST)

			:: Threw together a [[User:Dinobot_Scorn/Sandbox\|test draft]] before turning all those pages into redirects, just missing the toy section as the whole Sunstreaker/Sideswipe bio switch-up thing makes it a little finicky. --[[User:Dinobot Scorn\|Dinobot Scorn]] ([[User talk:Dinobot Scorn\|talk]]) 21:41, 27 November 2025 (EST)

M Sipher at 20:48, 27 November 2025

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	The electrostatic pulse rifle, I simply suggest for the sake of consistency with the merging of those other ones, since it is also a "pulse rifle". Most of these pages are all rather short/barebones as it is. --[[User:Dinobot Scorn\|Dinobot Scorn]] ([[User talk:Dinobot Scorn\|talk]]) 15:42, 27 November 2025 (EST)		The electrostatic pulse rifle, I simply suggest for the sake of consistency with the merging of those other ones, since it is also a "pulse rifle". Most of these pages are all rather short/barebones as it is. --[[User:Dinobot Scorn\|Dinobot Scorn]] ([[User talk:Dinobot Scorn\|talk]]) 15:42, 27 November 2025 (EST)

			: Sounds fine to me... but I would ALSO like to propose we start using THIS formatting for the Toys section of these pages: [[User:M_Sipher/Sandbox:WeaponPageToysSection]] --[[User:M Sipher\|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher\|talk]]) 15:48, 27 November 2025 (EST)

Dinobot Scorn: Merge(s)?

2025-11-27T20:42:13Z

Merge(s)?

New page

==Argument for possible merges==

I feel like there is a decent argument to be made for the merging of this page with a few other similar weapon pages (namely: [[Electron pulse gun]], [[Ion pulse gun]], [[Ion-pulse rifle]], and possibly [[Electrostatic pulse rifle]]).

Firstly, there's the case of Jazz's "semi-automatic ion pulse gun" being referred to as a "semi-automatic pulse rifle" by Dreamwave, as mentioned on this page, and there's not really a concrete distinction between "gun" and "rifle", one is just more specific. There's also the ion-pulse rifles attributed to Metroplex and Six-Gun. Then there's the case of the "electron pulse gun" of Tigertrack/Clampdown and Sunstreaker being referred to as an "electron pulse rifle" also by Dreamwave. With the gun that Clampdown uses within the Wings Universe being labelled as a generic "pulse rifle" in Termination.

The electrostatic pulse rifle, I simply suggest for the sake of consistency with the merging of those other ones, since it is also a "pulse rifle". Most of these pages are all rather short/barebones as it is. --[[User:Dinobot Scorn|Dinobot Scorn]] ([[User talk:Dinobot Scorn|talk]]) 15:42, 27 November 2025 (EST)