Talk:Swordsmanship

merge?

see Talk:European dueling sword. dab (ᛏ) 16:06, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

list

the "list of swordsmen" seems a bit arbitrary, without any context. Any fencer may be considered a swordsman, at the very least, the list should be organized by period or tradition. dab (ᛏ) 14:05, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yeah that should probably be its own article with at most a link in the see also section of this article. - Taxman ^Talk 17:19, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

I guess that's true. It is quite arbitrary. I thought I was doing a favor to merge Swordsmen based on suggestions, but now it does seem odd. Please do what you think it should be. - Aree

no, I quite agree with the merge. The list was out of place even before. I'll just remove it for now, we have categories for that (lists only add something if they are sorted or annotated in some way). dab (ᛏ) 09:36, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I agree with dab. Just make sure all those articles are in a sane category. If not, it's no waste to create 'list of swordsman' as an article. - Taxman ^Talk 12:31, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Two Weapon Fighting

this article lacks the idea of havin a sword in each hand Dudtz 8/5/05 1:26 Pm EST

Wiki contradictions

The Zweihander section of the article, when discussing historical use is inconsistant with the Zweihander article.

It is my personal belief that the Goliath manuscript does not infact protray zweihanders but longswords that are illustrated in a distored way. And as far as I know the historical fencing community agrees with my view.

Zweihanders are used more in the fashion of a polearm than a langschwert from my experiments with them.

I can cite a swordforum thread that supports my arguement if asked.