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Contents 1 Improvement drive 2 Helm not Helmet! 3 Pickelhaube protection 4 Adding a link 5 Seperate Article for Combat Helmets 6 Franz Kafka 7 Picture gallery

[edit] Improvement drive

Heraldry has been nominated to be improved by Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. Vote for this article there if you want to contribute. --Fenice 19:56, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Helm not Helmet!

To be accurate, whenever a helmet covers the entire face, regardless of whether it has a visor or not, it should be called a helm, not helmet. Helmets are similar except the face is not covered. SCGhosthunter1 15:41, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pickelhaube protection

The text now claims that the spikes on early German helmets, or Pickelhauben, "...saved many soldiers by diverting sideways otherwise mortal sabre blows to the head." This statement appears to be little more than pure speculation or mythmaking, so a citation is necessary to back up this claim or it will be removed. Jack Bethune 10:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Text claiming saber protection has been removed for lack of supporting citation or sources. Jack Bethune 10:56, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding a link

I work for the America's Most Wanted Safety Center, a new department of America's Most Wanted getting away from the capturing of criminals, and branching out to all aspects of safety. I feel a link to our post about the importance of using a helmet would be appropriate and mutually beneficial because it could potentially save lives. The link is http://www.amw.com/safety/?p=31 please consider it. Jrosenfe 16:10, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seperate Article for Combat Helmets

I started a seperate article for Combat helmets, because I think its appropriate. Tmaull 18:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Franz Kafka

I have read today in a news article than the world's first hard helmet for construction workers was invented by Franz Kafka while he was working in an insurance company. Can anybody confirm this, please? --Cokaban (talk) 14:18, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Helmets and Preferences In my opinion,Bell helmets are the type of helmet to buy because they are comforatable and they look great if you are going to buy a helmet buy based on how it feels and not the design because sure your helmet may look great but it may feel uncomforatable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaycie 95 (talk • contribs) 13:18, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Picture gallery

Huge picture galleries are not encouraged and needed (as per WP:NOTREPOSITORY and WP:MOS#Images). That is why there is Commons and a prominent link to it (at the bottom of the page). Furthermore, no links are needed to common words asp er MOS:LINK. -- P199 (talk) 17:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)