I wonder how best to distinguish between:

1. magazine - a specialized ammunition container for rapidly feeding and reloading a repeating firearm; also called "clip"
2. magazine - a printed publication of periodical nature, typically containing articles and advertisements

Comments?

If one has way more than the other, give it magazine and qualify the other. I'd imagine the printed object would come to mind first though.

Print version already has 200 entries, there's a single weapon instance in clip but that tag doesn't really seem to be used with any kind of consistency so we could probably put them all there.

I'm not exactly sure what's being recommended, so I have gone ahead and changed some tags to magazine_(clip) in the interest of clarity. Sorry if this is not correct...

The qualifier is usually a category rather than a synonym (c.f. bow_(weapon)), so maybe magazine_(firearm) or magazine_(weapon) would be more appropriate.

It's a little less clear though being that "magazine" is a meronym (sub-part) of "firearm" or "weapon" rather than a type of firearm or weapon itself. However, I guess we have something similar as precedent with bow_(instrument).

OK, I've changed a dozen magazine_(clip) tags to magazine_(weapon) since it seems to make a lot of sense, then created a new Wiki entry to match. I can't delete the former one, though.

Send it to the pointless wikis thread: forum #24575.