User talk:Finster72

Webley-Green
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia!

I have to apologise for the rather abrupt reversion of your edit- believe me, I don't like the Wiki-rules about Guns In Popular Culture either; personally I think the fact that this gun has been in that film is notable and exactly the sort of thing that should be in a Wiki article. Unfortunately, most of the other editors at Wiki disagree with me and I gave up arguing with them ages ago.

As for the Webley-Green, there really isn't such a gun. I've got a number of "Definitive Text" books in my reference library (including things like "The Webley Story" and the "1929 Textbook of Small Arms") and they make no reference at all the Webley-Green. In all the research I've done on the subject, as near as I can tell it's a misunderstanding over the "W-G" model of revolver; it appears at some point someone got "Webley W-G" confused with "W.W. Greener" (another famous English gun-making firm) and the name has stuck since. Webley and Greener did not willingly co-operate on handgun designs as far as I'm aware; they both felt the other had pinched ideas from their respective products at the time. There was a Webley-Wilkinson revolver (Sold by Wilkinson Sword, who also sold swords and cutlery to Officers in the late 19th/early 20th Centuries) and a number of other revolvers.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm a firearms historian and it gives me a headache trying to work it all out sometimes! :)

Still, I hope you'll stick around Wikipedia- there's a lot of projects (including WP:GUNS) that might interest you. Sing out if there's any help you need!

Kind regards; Commander Zulu (talk) 08:47, 2 December 2008 (UTC)