User:Klow



"Our cause seems hopeless."

- Vortigaunt about this wiki

"Don't forget to reload!"

- Rebel about Wikia's slow cache

Any questions? Views? Ideas? Bashing? Feel free to leave a message on my talk page. I'll answer on the same talk page.

Please take a look at the Manual of Style before doing anything.

My Steam username is "lempea".

I also contribute to Wookieepedia.

Article structures
Work in progress.

Good articles
In my opinion, here are articles I consider to be in good condition. Writing, sourcing, spelling, images, etc. are good. There are obviously some more than that, and structure rules should be created and applied for each type of article (and that of course should involve some rewriting).


 * Gordon Freeman
 * City 17 trainstations
 * Rail-based transportation
 * Hospital
 * White Forest Mines
 * Mortar Synth (more or less)
 * Crab Synth (more or less)
 * Bullsquid
 * The Wasteland
 * Moby Francke
 * Chuck Jones
 * Dhabih Eng
 * Ted Backman
 * Viktor Antonov
 * The Fisherman

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



 * Technology
 * Cleanup the tech lists and remove and redirect the older tech pages
 * Add the cut traps and merge the existing pages
 * Add other resistance stuff such as old radios, and lots of other stuff in the canals, mostly seen with the airboat
 * Write an Manual of Style for the mod pages
 * Cleanup and complete the minor char page
 * Merge the trap articles and add the cut ones
 * Each alternate title at the start of an article must also be in bold
 * Source and correct every quote at the start of the article, since they are sometimes (and obviously) full of spelling mistakes and approximations. They should match the subtitles exactly. And it's a big waste of time since most of them were added very recently. And if anyone knows a way to read the subtitles directly into the game files, that would be a huge time gain.
 * Make sure each infobox has the game titles in italics
 * Cleanup the external links in the games articles
 * Rewrite the City 17 article, especially the origins section. "Some fans think" is not very serious
 * Add related game names categories in all articles
 * Define a capitalization standard for weapons and enemies
 * Remove all unnecessary capitalization in page subtitles
 * Properly source all articles (Gordon Freeman at least is the only one I think is ok so far)
 * Re-read all the articles, make heavy rewrites and setup structure standards.
 * There are too many irrelevant "See also" through the wiki
 * Finish to add the "Notes and references" to each middle-size to big articles
 * Rethink the Gearbox content
 * Add official links to the main page
 * Reorganize the main page

Names

 * Is Menta Ray the real name?
 * Check all the locations for canon and or/conjecture titles, and source them
 * Find possible real names of the Xen flora with conj names

Pictures

 * Add pic of City 17, Canals, Citadel, Ravenholm, APCs (+ Combine truck) evolution through WC mappack maps
 * Is the Combine war pic canon?
 * Apply the width standard for the infobox pics, which is 250px 99% of the time
 * Explain Aperture and Black Mesa names and logos
 * Add more images to Ravenholm
 * More Chell pictures
 * Add a pic of the ongoing battle for the Nexus
 * Add Combine Tech images to their category
 * Dog vs Strider pic
 * Pic of the yellow Bullsquid
 * Add the pics of the real world model actors for HL2

Articles to create or subjects to mention in existing pages

 * Add RtB info for the Combine tech
 * ApertureScience.com + small guide?
 * Natural Selection
 * Mention the movie The Fly in Kleiner's Lab (the style of the building and the cat reference)
 * Mention the placeholder guy in the Portal first video
 * Add a footnote for the HL2 in-universe date
 * Add to Half-Life (series) the recurring themes (railway, vents, corridors, fps themes, etc)
 * Sand barnacle
 * Mention the old City 17 outer concrete wall + pic

Templates

 * Finish adding the game infobox to each mod article
 * Fix the spoiler template
 * Create a merge template
 * Sort the templates categories
 * Create a section template for ambig canon material for Barney, among others
 * Add the DEFAULTSORT to the real-world people articles
 * Add the "designer" field in the left-right navigation templates
 * Finish fixing the misspelled quotes
 * Customize template for newcomers
 * Create a template-only infobox for the games

Created pages


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.


 * Moby Francke
 * The Wasteland
 * Chuck Jones
 * Dhabih Eng
 * Ted Backman
 * Viktor Antonov
 * City 17 Trainstation
 * Boid
 * Xen Sentry Turret
 * The Specialists
 * Test Chamber 00
 * Test Chamber 01
 * Test Chamber 02
 * Test Chamber 03
 * Test Chamber 04
 * Test Chamber 05
 * Test Chamber 06
 * Test Chamber 07
 * Test Chamber 08
 * Test Chamber 09
 * Test Chamber 10
 * Test Chamber 11
 * Test Chamber 12
 * Test Chamber 13
 * Test Chamber 14
 * Test Chamber 15
 * Test Chamber 16
 * Test Chamber 17
 * Test Chamber 18
 * Test Chamber 19
 * Escape from the Enrichment Center
 * Robin Atkin Downes
 * Dennis Bateman
 * Rick May
 * Nathan Vetterlein
 * Grant Goodeve
 * Gary Schwartz
 * Xen Attacks
 * Rift
 * Intensity
 * Crossfire
 * Code Green
 * Domestic Violence
 * Resonance
 * Surface Call
 * Hazardous Course
 * Dual Access
 * Deliverance
 * A Leap of Faith
 * Power Struggle
 * Focal Point
 * Captive Freight
 * Duty Calls
 * Insecurity
 * X-8973
 * R-4913
 * Worlds Collide
 * Welcome to Black Mesa
 * Hospital
 * Combine Dispenser
 * Combine Bunker
 * 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.‎
 * Lani Minella‎
 * Black Mesa Personnel
 * Black Mesa (corporation)
 * FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod
 * Mistake of Pythagoras
 * White Forest (region)
 * Aperture Laboratories
 * Aperture Science Enrichment Center
 * Half-Life 2: Survivor
 * Rooftops
 * 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 journey‎
 * Sacktick‎
 * Stampeder‎
 * Alien Assassin‎
 * Alien Combine Soldier
 * Tripod Hopper‎
 * Flocking Floater‎
 * Fast Walker‎
 * Mr. Friendly‎
 * Kingpin

Beta 17
I'm working on a possible mini-mod with Beta 17 currently as a working title. It should feature the original journey from the trainstation to Kleiner's Lab, with some bonus maps (some of which are already available here). I don't really know if it'll be finished one day. If it is, it will be in quite a while. There are so many things to fix, and any little thing takes hours to be done. It did a lot so far, but there's still a lot to do. And I'm just learning Hammer by myself; I'm not a very good mapper. So whatever is released, it will be quite buggy, despite my numerous fixing attempts.