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Can I recommend again joining the Discord server! Easier to talk there, I can get other staff and community members to chime in and the like!
But that is among the "few pages" I am working on as of late to fix issues like this! :D That said its less of an issue in that case as "Pistol" would be a parent page to whatever we list Plasma Pistols under.
Then why the plasma pistol is consider as pistol
In Human terms (cause we dont know the Covenant/Banished/Alien term yet)
The Storm rifle and Plasma repeater are not called Assault rifles, they are called "Directed Energy Rifles". So its wrong to list them on the Assault rifle page.
I am actually working on a few pages as of late to deal with stuff like this. :)
If the plasma pistol can be a pistol then why the storm rifle and plasma repeater cannot be consider as assault rifle.
Hey may I recommend joining the Halopedia Discord! :) We can discuss stuff better there! I dont wanna revert everything and you may be able to provide sources to us there!