Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ranged weapon

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:26, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ranged weapon

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Original research. No evidence this is anything besides an arbitrary classification, a distinction that may have emerged from tabletop gaming given that I mostly get hits from D&D manuals when searching the term. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:28, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Games, History, and Technology. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:28, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
comment It's a gaming term, not a real world weapon distinction. Maybe there's some point to it strictly in those terms, nut in modern warfare the division is between hand-to-hand combat and everything else, and the long lists are essentially padding. Mangoe (talk) 14:27, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 16:25, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - An ambiguous classification based on original research which doesn't see real use outside the videogame or tabletop world.
Golem08 (talk) 21:08, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Unsourced. Seems to be a neologism from gaming. The term is not even grammatical. See also my comment of May 2022 and other discussion at Talk:Ranged weapon#Real term?. Nurg (talk) 22:51, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Post-closure note: Thread in question moved to this AfD's talk page. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 23:53, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The Google Scholar search shows the term is used in journals related to forensic science (among other academic disciplines not related to gaming), denotes a specific type or class of weapon, and doesn't appear to be uncommon. Saying the term only exists in gaming isn't accurate. Intothat darkness 15:47, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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