User:Klow

'For the time being, I'm really busy IRL, and I'm a bit tired of all this. (for real, this time) My editcount is past 82,500, I think that's more than enough for a single person. The new look has also discouraged me, as it simply sucks balls. Please take care of the wiki until my interest grows back, and write me a message in case it's really needed. I'm not gone forever, just kinda idle.'

"Good luck out there, buddy. You're gonna need it."

- Barney Calhoun to any admin

Oh hai! Any questions? Views? Ideas? Suggestions? Bashing? Feel free to leave a message on my talk page! I'll answer there and nowhere else. And keep cool, this is just a wiki.

Anything written here relies on my personal views only, and is not to be taken as part of the wiki's official views or policies.

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.


 * I am the one who manages the bot DØG for automated stuff.


 * Don't forget that Valve is not the only video game producer. Take a look at BioShock, Prey, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Thief or Mirror's Edge, among others. The Tomb Raider series are good, but I started being bored during Anniversary (10 years playing TR is overly long, I guess).


 * 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.


 * Do you hate ads? I do. Installing Firefox and the add-on Adblock Plus (with some mandatory subscriptions) will wash your soul.


 * Forgive me if I sometimes make spelling and/or English mistakes. Thing is, English is actually not my native language (which is Belgian French). Anyway I think my level is much better than many of you (no offense!), among which are many native English speakers. And, before I forget: if you can't spell "Gordon", "Alyx", and "Aperture" properly: please go back on YouTube.


 * Other wikis I can be found at: Spiroupédia (bureaucrat), Cloverpedia (bureaucrat), Mirror's Edge Wiki (sysop), Saint Seiya Wiki (sysop), and Wookieepedia.


 * In case you doubt it, I'm not a tyrant, I'm dedicated. But if you destroy in a few seconds hours of work spent here by me and the other dedicated editors, don't expect any mercy from me.

Stuff I made
I 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. I also created the current and some of the previous Combine OverWiki logos, as well as the other general layout customizations, and the main page layout, and the skin (based on Half-Life 2 textures).

Graphical-wise, I also made on Wikia: the Counter-Strike Wiki logo (now changed), the Team Fortress Wiki logo, the Thief Wiki logo, the Mirror's Edge Wiki logo (mostly improving the original), the Cloverpedia logo, the Saint Seiya Wiki logo and skin, and the Spiroupédia logo and skin.

Articles



 * Unidentified Aperture Science Gel
 * Stephen Merchant
 * Test Subject
 * Mel
 * The Terminal
 * Emplacement Gun
 * Pulse weapons
 * OverWiki:Retcons
 * Enrichment Center Test Subject Application Process
 * Tag: The Power of Paint
 * Party Escort Bot
 * Personality Core
 * Weighted Storage Ball Bucket
 * Blue and Orange
 * Aperture Science Paint
 * Excursion Funnel
 * Light Bridge
 * Weighted Pivot Cube
 * Weighted Storage Ball
 * Jay Pinkerton
 * Wheatley
 * Portal 2
 * Portal ARG
 * HECU Dam Turret
 * Aperture Science Radio
 * Black Mesa Air Control
 * Gamma Labs
 * Alien Quarantine Labs
 * Black Mesa South Access
 * Section A-17 Prototype Labs
 * Freight Yard
 * Area 8 Topside Dormitories
 * Black Mesa Medical Lab
 * Black Mesa desert
 * Level 3 Dormitories
 * Waste Processing Area 3
 * Topside Motorpool
 * Biological Waste Processing Plant
 * Xen Sentry Cannon
 * Advanced Biological Research Lab
 * Van Buren
 * Newell (scientist)
 * Sector A Training Facility
 * Sector B Coolant Reserve
 * Sector C Test Labs
 * Sector D Administration
 * Sector E Biodome Complex
 * Sector F Lambda Complex
 * Sector G Hydro Electric
 * Ben Houge
 * Minigun
 * Human Sergeant
 * Energy Grenade
 * HECU Radio
 * Welding Torch
 * HECU Sniper
 * HECU Medic
 * HECU Engineer
 * Xen Thumper
 * Xen Healing Shower
 * Xen Healing Pool
 * Protozoan
 * Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
 * Tactical Map
 * David Mertz
 * Kristy Junio
 * Rob Heironimus
 * Brian Hess
 * Matthew Armstrong
 * Black Mesa Ceiling Turret
 * Combine Ground Turret
 * Combine Ceiling Turret
 * Resistance imagery
 * Dynamite
 * Aperture Science Speaker System
 * Test Subject 42
 * Test Subject 234
 * Arlene
 * Daniel
 * Jacob
 * Mary
 * 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 cut 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
 * Aperture Science High Energy Pellet
 * Harpoon
 * F-117 Nighthawk
 * ApertureScience.com
 * Aperture Science Security Camera
 * Delivery cart
 * Black Mesa truck
 * Johanson
 * Alyx's cache
 * 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 Ceiling 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
 * 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
 * Combot
 * Stukabat
 * OverWiki:Canon
 * Gearbox Software
 * Mike Morasky
 * 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.

Other images
These include low-res images I partially or completely remade from scratch using better sources.

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. We miss you!
 * 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 leak, as well as his Russia-related knowledge, his hi-res RtB scans, and other relevant info I added here. Also, bear in mind that when Black Mesa is actually released and that you are the one telling me the news, I won't believe you!
 * HGrunt for his deep knowledge of the leak, neat fixed maps, and many leak screenshots.
 * Flat Zeus for his fixed brushes, maps and other nice stuff.
 * BetaMaster for the Missing Information logo.
 * Halo-343 for his tremendous contribution to the cleanup project.