Talk:Flying guillotine (weapon)

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[edit] Fact or fiction

I'm pretty knowledgeable in martial arts weapons, however, I don't claim to know all of them. That having been said, I have never heard of an actual "historical" flying guillotine. The article's lead paragraph talks about "crude drawings" that exist. I fear they are confusing these drawings with the screenshot I just added. As far as I know, the flying guillotine is a completely fictional weapon. --Ghostexorcist 22:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

The "flying guillotine" is a real weapon, chinese historical records contain texts mentioning this weapon. Numerous descriptions exists, and the hat style is just one interpretation of this weapon from certain texts. Ive seen one description of the weapon that describes it as some kind of poison. Ian Kiu (hahaha...) 19:41, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

If you have verifiable sources for that, please feel free to add it to the page. --Ghostexorcist 19:50, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

There was a special on National Geographic on "weird Chinese weapons" that featured the flying guillotine. However, it mentioned that it's been debated as to whether the flying guillotine is an actual weapon or not. There's little-to-no evidence supporting the existence of a flying guillotine. MastaFighta 21:44, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I know. A previous editor added the show details to the "Media" section. However, I had to track down a source for it. --Ghostexorcist 21:56, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

In the National Geographic show, they built a working flying guillotine. Therefore it is a weapon. Whether it was used in China in the past or not is irrelevant. It is a weapon, if only made for a documentary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.229.70 (talk) 00:41, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Debatable. Is the Klingons' large bladed thing (don't know the name) an actual weapon just because it was *made* for movies? There are probably quite a lot of such examples in heroic fantasy. I don't think it qualifies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.98.47.120 (talk) 08:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Class

I have self-rated the article as "start-class" because it needs a lot more info and citations in order to be brought to B or above. --Ghostexorcist 18:13, 19 August 2007 (UTC)