User:Klow

"Our cause seems hopeless."

- Vortigaunt about the struggle against bad contributors

Oh hai! Any questions? (absurd or not, with or without punctuation) Views? Ideas? Suggestions? Bashing? Feel free to leave a message on my talk page! I'll answer there and nowhere else.

Misc

 * Please take a look at the Manual of Style and the Layout Guide before doing anything.


 * My Steam username is the same as here. Feel free to join our official Steam group, and spread the word.


 * Don't forget that Valve is not the only video game producer. Take a look at BioShock, Prey, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or the Thief series, among others.


 * Anyone who'd like a custom wallpaper based on one of my created logos, feel free to ask.


 * I know, I spend way too much time here. I just can't help it.


 * Forgive me if I sometimes make spelling and/or English mistakes. Thing is, English is actually not my native language (which is Belgian French), but I think my level is much better than many of you, who sometimes have an appalling English level, and it's a shame considering it's most of the time your mother language. Not anyone can write, so please refrain to do so until you are mature enough. And, before I forget: if you can't spell "Gordon" and "Aperture" properly: Please. Go. Away.


 * I am also bureaucrat on Spiroupédia and Cloverpedia.


 * I also contribute to Wookieepedia, but not as often as I used to.

Created articles
I also fixed many articles and created lots of templates and categories and added/improved countless images (such as the Raising the Bar cover and Episode Two poster remade from scratch) ; it would be impossible and pointless to mention them all here.




 * Holographic Assistant
 * Kathy Levin
 * HECU Double Turret
 * Black Ops Mortar
 * M2 Browning Machine Gun
 * M202A1 FLASH
 * M198 Howitzer
 * Mike Patton
 * Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill
 * Aperture Science Vital Apparatus Vent
 * Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator
 * 1500 Megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button
 * Petroleum Station
 * Aperture Science Unstationary Scaffold
 * Submarine
 * Tri Nguyen
 * Eric Kirchmer
 * Black Hole Gun
 * Land Mine
 * Mr. Valve
 * Flash Grenade
 * Aperture Science Military Android
 * Santego Military Base
 * Jeremy Bennett
 * Unidentified Synth
 * Station 9
 * Unidentified deaf character
 * The Mesa Times
 * Ivan the Space Biker
 * Weapon Box
 * Otis Laurey
 * LM
 * Snark Mine
 * Black
 * Coomer (security guard)
 * Bailey (security guard)
 * West
 * Backman (security guard)
 * Victor
 * Guthrie (security guard)
 * Advanced Knee Replacement
 * Mark IV Thermonuclear Device
 * Alésia Glidewell
 * Jamil Mullen
 * Barn Advisor
 * Reardon
 * Armstrong
 * Bahl
 * Cavanaugh
 * Deupree
 * Heironimus
 * Hess
 * Landon
 * Luna
 * Martel
 * McArthur
 * Mertz
 * Montague
 * Palmer
 * Pitchford
 * Selitto
 * VanDolen
 * Wardwell
 * S. Reardon
 * S. Jones
 * C-130
 * Backman (scientist)
 * Bailey (scientist)
 * Birdwell
 * Bond
 * Casali
 * Coomer (scientist)
 * Guthrie (scientist)
 * Johnson
 * Jones (scientist)
 * Laidlaw
 * Laur
 * Riller
 * Stelly
 * Teasley
 * Wood
 * Bernier
 * Caughley
 * Cook
 * Donaldson
 * Lundeen
 * Mark
 * Bass
 * Mennet
 * Myers
 * Theodore
 * Walker
 * Beier
 * Cassello
 * Dunn
 * Fase
 * Hood
 * Jones (security guard)
 * Kooy
 * Lombardi
 * O'Conner
 * Pauly
 * Phillips
 * Pobst
 * Trock
 * Veevaert
 * S. Bahl
 * P. Deupree
 * J. Faulkenbury
 * R. Heironimus
 * B. Martel
 * D. Mertz
 * L. Montgomery
 * R. Pitchford
 * M. Wardwell
 * Lauren
 * Combine Dispenser
 * Vortex Hopwire
 * Long Jump Module
 * Desert Launcher
 * Earth creatures
 * Hunter-Chopper Bomb
 * Harpoon
 * F-117 Nighthawk
 * ApertureScience.com
 * Aperture Science Security Camera
 * Aperture Science High Energy Pellet
 * Delivery Cart
 * Black Mesa Truck
 * Johanssen
 * Alyx's Home
 * Vance Headquarters
 * Jalopy
 * Retinal Scanner
 * Mil Mi-8
 * Combine SWAT Truck
 * Merkava
 * Combine Assassin Tank
 * MTM 8
 * Dr. Breen's Private Reserve
 * School Bus
 * Combine Launcher
 * EMP Tool
 * Television
 * Combine Monitor
 * Transponder
 * Combine Big Momma Pod
 * Door Tower
 * Sand Barnacle
 * Particle Storm
 * HK-707
 * Portal: Prelude
 * Source SDK
 * Wasteland Scanner
 * Inney
 * Digger
 * Jet Ski
 * AirEx Truck
 * Samuel
 * Skitch
 * Helena Mossman
 * Eli Maxwell
 * Vance
 * The Consul
 * Conscripts
 * Weekday Warrior
 * Half-Life storyline
 * Half-Life: Opposing Force storyline
 * Half-Life: Blue Shift storyline
 * Half-Life: Decay storyline
 * Half-Life 2 storyline
 * Half-Life 2: Episode One storyline
 * Half-Life 2: Episode Two storyline
 * Portal storyline
 * Cooper
 * Peters
 * Sharpe
 * Borealis (cut location)
 * Randy Pitchford
 * Stephen Bahl
 * Moby Francke
 * The Wasteland
 * Chuck Jones
 * Dhabih Eng
 * Ted Backman
 * Viktor Antonov
 * Technical trainstation
 * City 17 trainstation
 * Boid
 * Xen Sentry Turret
 * The Specialists
 * X-8973
 * R-4913
 * Hospital
 * Combine Super Soldier
 * Jonathan Coulton
 * Erik Wolpaw
 * Chet Faliszek
 * Chris Jensen
 * Kelly Bailey
 * Gabe Newell
 * Tony Todd
 * Ellen McLain
 * Jim French
 * Louis Gossett Jr.
 * Lani Minella
 * Black Mesa (corporation)
 * FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod
 * Mistake of Pythagoras
 * The Outlands
 * Aperture Laboratories
 * Half-Life 2: Survivor
 * Weather Control
 * Air Exchange
 * Skyscraper
 * Manhack Arcade
 * Combine Factories
 * Archer
 * Snapbug
 * Stukabat
 * OverWiki:Canon
 * Gearbox Software
 * Panther Eye
 * Kraken Base
 * Get Your Free TVs!
 * Half-Life 2 original storyline
 * Sacktick
 * Stampeder
 * Alien Assassin
 * Alien Combine Soldier
 * Tripod Hopper
 * Flocking Floater
 * Fast Walker
 * Mr. Friendly
 * Kingpin

SVG Half-Life logos
These logos are alll based on real Half-Life logos. I created them all from scratch, except for the City 17 logos that are based on the Missing Information one (I just converted it to SVG, then customized it).

Main Page logos
Each time based on existing images used on the wiki.

Acknowledgments


I would like to thank the following:

Valve

 * Valve for their awesome universe. I just hope you guys didn't blacklist us for our expensive leak coverage.
 * Marc Laidlaw for his awesome storyline
 * Viktor Antonov for his amazing creativity
 * Ted Backman for his "interesting" creatures
 * Merle Dandridge for her great voice-over talent

Gamers

 * YabbaMyIcing, the "reverter-in-chief", for sticking around
 * Darkman 4 for his tremendous contribution to the weapons category, among others
 * MattDienhoff for his professionalism
 * Erickos for the boring task of adding the infobox to all game and mod articles
 * Donovan-j-charlie for his Half-Life and expansions screenshots
 * Mega Sean 45 for leaving us alone forever
 * ШЛЫК for his deep knowledge of the Beta, as well as his Russia-related knowledge, his hi-res RtB scans, and other relevant info I added here
 * HGrunt for his deep knowledge of the Beta and neat fixed maps
 * Flat Zeus for his fixed brushes, maps and other nice stuff
 * BetaMaster for the Missing Information logo

Things to do
If you want to help me in this task, feel free to pick an item in the list below. Don't pick one you don't quite understand, of course, and let me know when you have done something.

General fixing

 * Check canonicity of Gordon's BG
 * Wallace Breen: expand the gallery, the relationships and the rtb info, and rewrite some stuff in the main info
 * Cleanup the external links in the games articles
 * Rewrite the City 17 article, especially the origins section (+ mention the old City 17 outer concrete wall already covered in the Wasteland article)
 * Check the related game names categories in the quality articles (a lot has been done on that, thanks Donovan)
 * Add more images in the storyline articles when needed + external walkthrough links + easter eggs coverage + heavy cleanup and rewrite
 * Change Jackson and Tower quotes
 * Flare Gun/Alyx/HEV Suit issue/IA Latham
 * Consider splitting Black Mesa Research Facility
 * Consider splitting HECU

Names



 * Is Sprite the real name? Sprite is also the name of that type of 2D graphic
 * Source the HL2 location names
 * Find possible real names of the Xen flora with conj names
 * Homo Sapiens Combinus?

Images

 * hecu sniper
 * rail engine brushes
 * e3_strider park
 * beta models: gman, eli, mossman, drop, gunship, kleiner, barney
 * Moar SVG logos
 * Striders impaling
 * Elites in NP
 * unfixed Combine Guard Gun
 * Beta coast tunnels different
 * aperture props
 * Barney sans equipment.jpg orig
 * alyx on eli
 * crashed gunship
 * EMP Tool in Ep1
 * APC firing rockets
 * eli leg
 * citadelfarnode.mdl
 * BM ground logos
 * beta posters
 * graffitis
 * np cellblock logos
 * decay room names
 * long bridge beta
 * Mortar Synth in the beta
 * White Forest Cyrillic directions sign
 * Pics for each Portal test chamber
 * Add more pics of City 17, Canals, Citadel, Ravenholm
 * Explain Aperture and Black Mesa names and logos
 * More Chell pictures
 * Add a pic of the ongoing Nexus battle outside
 * eliden
 * black mesa cut posters
 * full rebel outfits
 * kleiner hl2 & beta model
 * beta other characters models
 * old posters comparison
 * stripped soldiers in ep1 citadel
 * vert start
 * wasteland_railbridge
 * alyx + eli depot
 * airex conscripts headquarters
 * Portal slideshow pics
 * Hunter-Chopper fights in the canals
 * subt
 * upload what's left of rtb
 * upload what's left of beta models
 * cguard in e3 terminal
 * trainstation in ep1_citadel_03
 * city road 04
 * ravenholm last trap
 * dog's kennel
 * transit system train brush images

Galleries

 * Alyx
 * Rail-based transportation (more)
 * City 17
 * Razor Train (captions)
 * Citadel (HL2 ride + captions + moar ep1)
 * More Vertigo
 * Victory Mine: ep2_outland_03
 * The White Forest Inn (more)
 * White Forest (more + check captions)
 * The Outlands (captions)
 * Civil Protection (moar)

Subjects to add



 * Add the remaining info on canon and gearbox
 * A page for the Cake
 * Brands, real and fictional, retail and beta
 * Voice actors info in rtb
 * Chicken test subject
 * One of the ambient sounds heard in the Test Chambers is recycled from one of the Ravenholm's - which one?
 * Add RtB info for the Combine tech
 * Mention the placeholder guy in the Portal first video + pic
 * Mention the issue/inconsistency with the suit helmet in the HEV article
 * Strange combine tech box
 * Develop the gas mask citizens part in the Citizens article
 * Nevsky Prospekt
 * Metrocops cut sounds
 * Mr Valve was based on...?
 * Add the remaining info from Laidlaw's vault, which means 'a lot'
 * Mention the high number of survey teams sent on Xen and their corpses that can be found everywhere
 * Behind the scenes for Ravenholm and its evolution through the mappack
 * Xen thumper and other Xen techno (tower, etc.)
 * bullsquid/headcrab/vort experiments in decay
 * Commentaries
 * Achievements in related articles
 * Lamarr mod
 * hammer .mid
 * Bremerton, WA for Beta Coast maps

Templates

 * Add and fix the hidable option in the nav templates
 * Fix the space issue with the article template
 * Quantum event infobox
 * The faction template terms are not appropriate for all factions