User:Klow



"Our cause seems hopeless."

- Vortigaunt about this wiki

"Don't forget to reload!"

- Rebel about Wikia's slow cache

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.

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.


 * Forgive me if I sometimes make spelling mistakes. Thing is, English is actually not my native language.


 * I also contribute to Wookieepedia.

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

 * Split the remaining lists
 * Add other resistance stuff such as old radios, and lots of other stuff in the canals, mostly seen with the airboat
 * Add a section in the layout page for the mods
 * 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 official links to the main page
 * Add more images in the storyline articles when needed + external walkthrough links + easter eggs coverage + heavy cleanup and rewrite
 * Add more specific links for the HECU tanks and other vehicles
 * Change Jackson and Tower quotes
 * Flare Gun/Alyx/HEV Suit issue

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

 * Multitool in Ep1
 * 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 battle for the Nexus
 * Add the RtB pics of the real world model actors for HL2
 * Crab and Mortars in the Citadel
 * eliden
 * vert start
 * wasteland_railbridge
 * alyx + eli depot
 * airex conscripts headquarters
 * Portal slideshow pics
 * Cut achievements
 * Hunter-Chopper fights in the canals
 * rat model
 * construction model
 * subt
 * this is sparta in Portal textures
 * station in ep1_citadel_03
 * weapon strippers in ep1_citadel_01

Galleries

 * Alyx
 * Rail-based transportation (more)
 * White Forest region
 * White Forest base
 * Gina Cross
 * City 17
 * Manhack Arcade (captions)
 * Citadel (HL2 ride + captions)
 * More Vertigo
 * Victory Mine (ep2_outland_03)

Subjects to add



 * Kathy Levin / Lani Minella voice issues for the HEV suit, the BM transit system, the holographic instructor, Colette Green and Gina Cross. Who did who??
 * Is the Resonance Cascade a Portal Storm?
 * Add RtB info for the Combine tech
 * ApertureScience.com + small guide?
 * Mention the placeholder guy in the Portal first video + pic
 * Mention the issue/inconsistency with the suit helmet in the HEV article
 * Forum:Valve game wikis
 * Mention the Beta Combine watchtower + pic + strange box
 * Develop the gas mask citizens part in the Citizens article
 * Nevsky Prospekt
 * Brickbar more infos
 * Metrocops cut sounds
 * List Citizen numbers + names + heads
 * Mr Valve was based on...?
 * Add info from Laidlaw's vault
 * Mention the high number of survey teams sent on Xen and their corpses that can be found everywhere.
 * Behind the scenes for the citadel (mappack, sounds, concept art, etc.)
 * Behind the scenes for Ravenholm and its evolution through the mappack
 * City 17 Underground was first in HL2 (?) (d3_under)
 * Borealis tug theory
 * there is still a lot to take from the RtB story fragments
 * Snark mine

Templates

 * Add entities to the character infoboxes
 * Remake the Headcrab infobox with the same structure than the other infoboxes
 * IE bug for Rollermines, Hospital, Nova Prospekt, Technical trainstation and Aperture Laboratories
 * Properly format the external links references with citeweb

Created articles


I also created a lot of templates and categories and added/improved countless images; it would be impossible and pointless to mention them all here.


 * School Bus
 * Combine Launcher
 * Alyx's Tool
 * Television
 * Combine Monitor
 * Transponder
 * Sensor Gate
 * 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
 * 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
 * Robin Atkin Downes
 * Dennis Bateman
 * Rick May
 * Nathan Vetterlein
 * Grant Goodeve
 * Gary Schwartz
 * X-8973
 * R-4913
 * Hospital
 * Combine Super Soldier
 * Jonathan Coulton
 * Erik Wolpaw
 * Chet Faliszek
 * Mike Morasky
 * Chris Jensen
 * Kelly Bailey
 * Gabe Newell
 * Tony Todd
 * Ellen McLain
 * Jim French
 * Louis Gossett Jr.
 * Black Mesa (corporation)
 * FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod
 * Mistake of Pythagoras
 * White Forest (region)
 * 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

Acknowledgment
I'd like to thank to following:

Valve

 * Valve for their awesome universe
 * Marc Laidlaw for his awesome storyline
 * Viktor Antonov for his amazing creativity
 * Ted Backman for his "interesting" creatures
 * Merde Dandridge for her great voice-over talent

Gamers

 * MattDienhoff for his professionalism
 * YabbaMyIcing for staying
 * Darkman 4 for his tremendous contribution to the weapons category
 * 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
 * HGrunt for his deep knowledge of the Beta and neat fixed maps
 * Overwatch Elite for his fixed brushes and other nice stuff