User talk:RussianTrooper

images

Thanks for the note. If you can, post the thumbnails on my talk page, so that I can see which images you're talking about. :) Also, I must comment: If you have an opposition to the concept of "copyright", hypothetically does that mean I can take your gun articles, copy them here word for word, but remove your name as author and put mine instead? :) I know you don't do that, but that is a possible outcome if we had no copyright laws. Just food for thought. MoviePropMaster2008 16:31, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

photos

Well since you were polite enough to ask, go ahead, but if you can somewhere, please put an attribution "courtesy of IMFDB" somewhere in the text near the photo. Thanks. MoviePropMaster2008 19:53, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey don't change the AK47 page

We keep all the 7.62x39 AND the 5.56x45mm guns on one page. The AK-74 page only has the 5.45x39mm. And you don't have to upload EVERY public domain image of an AK on IMFDB. MoviePropMaster2008 19:56, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks but don't take it upon yourself to do a wholesale change to a page. Despite the gun being an original 5.45mm design that was being built and chambered for 5.56mm later, the 5.56mm variants all go on the original page. The reason is that most movies made in the U.S. and Canada during the 1980s used Chinese guns (and the random Egyptian or Yugoslavian guns) but the only variants we saw for decades was either 7.62x39mm or 5.56x45mm. The 5.45mm guns didn't even become seen in films outside of Russia until the 1990s. Remember that this is not a GUN encyclopedia but a GUNS in movies site. The original military weapon is fine, but what we actually see in the film takes precedence. So we tend to list what was used, not what it was supposed to be. MoviePropMaster2008 20:54, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Russian Movies and shows

First of all, we welcome foreign (aka NON American movies and TV shows) as long as the pages don't suck. LOL If you go to a complete page and follow the formatting rules exactly, no one will complain. My biggest complaint about many foreign (to us that is) members is that their pages are terrible. If you do nice looking, good resolution screencaps (remember to READ the rules before making pages) with good gun identifications (along with a poster or DVD cover), then we have no problem with it. The only problem is that many SOVIET films and shows aren't available in good DVD transfers. I have some CCCP movies in my movie collection and the image and sound quality was terrible compared to American films. Now current films like 9POTA look good (but the DVD available from Amazon UK is not a good transfer, I've SEEN a high definition version of it and it looks MUCH better but now we don't have access to a high def version of 9POTA commercially here. So the short answer is yes, go for it, but do it right. We get frustrated when people don't do a good job because most of the time, we can't fix it because we don't have access to the films. Thanks. MoviePropMaster2008 00:09, 3 October 2010 (UTC)