Talk:Carl Walther GmbH

pop culture

List of trivia don't belong in wikipedia (see what wikipedia is not: WP:NOT, specifically "lists of trivia"). If anything the Smith&Wesson page needs to be trimmed. Listing each occurrence of a walther in every film or video games is almost completely insignificant. If we are talking about the S&W Model 29 and the Dirty Harry movies, then yes the pop culture connotation becomes significant. For trivial list of appearances, please see List of firearms in video games and List of firearms in films. --Deon Steyn 06:48, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

P99

I hardly would consider the P99 "legendary". P38 and PPK yes. P99 no.

I can add: P99 was the gun not only of James Bond, but also gun of German policeman Alexander Brandtner from "Kommissar Rex" TV series (do you remember the famous German Shepherd?). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.0.210.102 (talk) 15:15, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Rename

Shouldn't be rename this to Carl Walther GmbH or similar, and then make Walther a redirect or disambig. In the long-term Walther is likely to have conflicts. Arthurrh 20:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

The rename to "Walther arms" wasn't an improvement. "arms" isn't part of the actual name of the company, after all. 24.214.230.66 (talk) 08:06, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Obviously this has been  Done at some point --BjKa (talk) 11:09, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

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Fair use rationale for Image:Walther P99 .jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Walther PPK gun.jpg

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Pronunciation

If you combine the Pronunciation of vulture and of ulteration into something like Vulter, you're really really close to the correct pronunciation of Walther (just the german l sounds a bit different). My main point being, that the "a" sounds different from the "a" in the american name Walter.
Didn't put it in the article, cos it would have to be combined properly with what's already there, plus I think it might be a bit silly. --BjKa (talk) 12:28, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Isn't it Walter and then there's an "h" between the "l" and "t"? Or is it just me? I always pronounce it like "Wall" and then "thur".--Rollersox (talk) 19:55, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

The h is silent. Makes absolutely no difference to pronunciation if it is there or not. It is a remnant of old spelling, that mostly got reformed in 1901, but can still be found in personal names and place names like Rothenburg or Thüringen. --BjKa (talk) 10:51, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

As far as I'm concerned (I speak British English), 'vaulter' has an 'aw' sound like in 'all', so it isn't a good rendering of the German pronunciation.213.127.210.95 (talk) 16:17, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Major Problem

The Walther Arms company is NOT Carl Walther GMBH. Whoever renamed this page screwed up big time!!!
Furthermore, there is precious little of actual Walther history under the history section. And there is NOTHING about Walther Arms history.
Digitallymade (talk) 17:35, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Please stop "SHOUTING", and over-using exclamation points (!!!). Second, it's more helpful if you provide reliable sources here for your claims, so that others can see your evidence and help out if needed, or provide counter sources if they believe your interpretation of the evidence is wrong. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 19:57, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Recent edit

Preserving here by proving this link. My rationale was: "WP:CATALOG: excessive and promotional detail; uncited; unneeded self-citations; rm red linked entries". Please let me know if there are any concerns. --K.e.coffman (talk) 20:12, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Zella-Mehlis

The article currently says: "Zella-Mehlis, in what was then Hesse but is today Thuringia."
I don't think Zella-Mehlis was ever in Hesse. According to de:Zella-Mehlis it would probably have belonged to Saxe-Gotha at the time. I'm removing the "Hesse" part of the sentence. --BjKa (talk) 11:09, 21 June 2018 (UTC)