Want to suggest new categories? Challenge the validity of a given article or source? Discuss the idea in general? Do that here, to avoid cluttering the main thread.

please change the name of "soft weapoons".

i assure you, there is NOTHING soft in a flail  ;)

and crossbows can be smaller, so they don't have to be shot from shoulder.

Soft doesn't exactly refer to the force of impact, but to the mechanics. However, I can see the potential for confusion. Would Flex Weapons be better?

Alright. That was mainly to differentiate crossbows from bows, but I figure most people here can tell the difference, so that little tidbit can be safely removed, I think.

Flexible weapons would be better. Soft weapon sounds like a rubber blackjack or something.

A point of contention over the throwing knives, etc section. Is this going to cover just those items (which are not always thrown, particularly bo shuriken, but that could be made note of in their article) or all small hand thrown weapons?

Staff weapons, or whatever that section is, should be changed to polearms. Having such arbitrary sections for weapons might be difficult (is a bardiche a polearm or an axe?) so having an idea of some tighter guidelines might be good.

Good luck on this project, I can't wait to read some of the finished entries. The format looks promising.

looked at the original thread this morning - Am I right in thinking you intend to compile a list of links to threads on the forum about various weapons.
'cos if that's not it, I have no idea what you are doing :-)

Anything to replace the search engine that actually finds things would be welcome :-)  

The thrown weapons category can be clarified as entries are added.

I call it staff weapons since that's what they're called in the old medieval manuals I've studied. A bardiche, being mounted on a shaft, would be a staff weapon, or polearm, regardless of what's on the business end. Although I can see where the line could be blurred between some polearms and axes... I'll have to consider that.

The intent is not only links to articles on this forum, but from outside the forum.

okay - so how come you don't have any links yet - not even ones you've added yourself to get things started ?

Break just started. I haven't had time during the school week to gather the resources, but I should be able to get some over the weekend, provided I can find an internet hookup where I'm going. We're headed towards finals week, so I don't have much time to spare, but after May 5th I'll be able to devote more time to this project.

Added four links to the article.

Still need suggestions...

Yes, the nomenclature:  "flexible weapons" would be more in keeping with the prevalent terminology with which I have come into contact (as in "sticks, blades, flexibles, projectiles and composites", as one standardised system of self-defense describes them, according to the Japanese "Godai" system of five categories based on the old Asian alchemical elements of "earth, fire, water, air and quintessence/void", respectively).

I can't seem to find any articles on flexible weapons online, and that's one that I'd really like to expand, along with natural armor and the entire shield category. Threads from this forum are alright, but I'd rather expand to off-site references.

Flexibles are a hard subject. There is hardly any literature describing nunchaku, for instance (infact there has been not a single kata found for them, historically).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansetsukon is the only one I can remember being documented in any form of detail, but it is mixed with myth.

One constant I have seen with most descriptions of flails et a is that they were used to reach around shields.

Added a link to http://www.secrets-of-shuriken.com.au/index1.htm, a rather extensive website on shuriken throwing.