Category talk:Cannon

Request for help.

Please help me create this category. The IMFDB website is full of pictures of weapons that are not classified or just don't have pages created. If you find any weapon not listed here. Then type it in. And I will be creating more pages over time to sort everything out.--Emto_PL (talk) 17:26, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Name change proposal

How about changing the name of this category to Category:Artillery and adding Category:Mortar as a subcategory? LJ (talk) 18:45, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Eh, some of these aren't really "artillery" in a meaningful sense - AA autocannons are a particularly notable example. Pyr0m4n14c (talk) 04:19, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

In my opinion, "mortar" should have a separate category, as I have so far. This "cannon" category includes all uncategorized pages in one place. I think it should stay as it is now. This is a new category, and it is being added all the time. There are still a lot of weapons of this type on the IMFDB portal that are not listed here. Mortar is a category person and let it stay that way.--Emto_PL (talk) 08:10, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Alphabetical or by size

So I'm a bit confused with regards to internal consistency here. Are we organizing names that begin with the bore diameter purely alphabetically (erm, numerically) with no regard for measurement system? Or by actual physical size? Because I just added in the (10-inch) Rodman gun entry at its size-appropriate position (254mm), but it got moved to the beginning of the whole section because the number 10 is smaller than the other numbers. Except it's not, because we clearly have all the German designations which use cm instead of mm, so things like a 3.7cm gun should be listed before a 10-inch gun if we're going by numbers with no regard for measurement system. Internal consistency is the most important kind of consistency, and we really need to pick which system we're going for. Alex T Snow (talk) 13:08, 4 February 2023 (UTC)