MatthewVanitas
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I've been interested in this cartridge for years, despite never having dealt personally with it, nor even the .41 Magnum. I suppose I just have a fascination with great ideas that just never made it (which is why I ride a recumbent bicycle).
I finally got around to writing a Wikipedia article on the cartridge, and ensured that every fact in it was clearly cited to a formal source, not just hearsay:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.41_Special
Is anyone able to help spruce this up with either of the following?
While I'd be happy to hear any personally-known facts about the cartridge here in the thread, I want to keep the actual Wikipedia up to proper standards with only fully-cited material. Not trying to be picky or pedantic, just trying to keep gun articles on the high-quality end of the Wikipedia pool. Thanks to anyone who can help out with an image, cited facts, or who just has a thumbs-up for this new article.
I finally got around to writing a Wikipedia article on the cartridge, and ensured that every fact in it was clearly cited to a formal source, not just hearsay:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.41_Special
Is anyone able to help spruce this up with either of the following?
- Any images of a .41 Special, ideally of the overall cartridge, and one of properly headstamped brass (like the custom Starline run). It must be a photo that you yourself own the copyright to, or one that has been explicitly released as Public Domain/Creative Commons. It cannot be just something off some website, even if that person doesn't explicitly label it as a copyright (copyright is default, lacking any evidence to the contrary).
- Providing facts/specifics which are explicitly cited to professional sources. I'm sure there are older books/articles mentioning this which just aren't traceable online, so if someone has such a paper copy, we can cite that book for additional facts about the stunted history of the cartridge.
- If anyone is a proficient speaker of another language (and knows gun terminology in it), I could use your help to render this article into German, or any other languages likely to have gun hobbyists who would find the article helpful.
While I'd be happy to hear any personally-known facts about the cartridge here in the thread, I want to keep the actual Wikipedia up to proper standards with only fully-cited material. Not trying to be picky or pedantic, just trying to keep gun articles on the high-quality end of the Wikipedia pool. Thanks to anyone who can help out with an image, cited facts, or who just has a thumbs-up for this new article.