User:Klow



"Our cause seems hopeless."

- Vortigaunt about the struggle against bad contributors

"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 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
 * Consider splitting Black Mesa Research Facility
 * Consider splitting Black Mesa Personnel

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

 * EMP Tool 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 Nexus battle outside
 * Add the RtB pics of the real world model actors for HL2
 * Crab and Mortars in the Citadel
 * eliden
 * vert start
 * wasteland_railbridge
 * full characters models
 * alyx + eli depot
 * airex conscripts headquarters
 * Portal slideshow pics
 * Cut achievements
 * Hunter-Chopper fights in the canals
 * subt
 * cguard e3 terminal
 * this is sparta in Portal textures
 * station in ep1_citadel_03
 * weapon strippers in ep1_citadel_01
 * city road 04
 * decay rooms pics

Galleries

 * Alyx
 * Rail-based transportation (more)
 * White Forest region
 * White Forest base
 * Gina Cross
 * 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 + captions)
 * The Outlands (captions)

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
 * 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
 * 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 Ravenholm and its evolution through the mappack
 * City 17 Underground was first in HL2 (?) (d3_under)
 * there is still a lot to take from the RtB story fragments
 * Xen thumper and other Xen techno (tower, etc.)
 * bullsquid/headcrab/vort experiments in decay
 * From the instruction manuals: Barney info, HL PS2 manual pics, gina schedule infos and the related names, colette letter infos, LM, Otis, etc.

Templates

 * Remake the different infoboxes with the correct structure (Headcrab, Military Conflicts)
 * Add and fix the hidable option in the nav templates
 * IE bug for Rollermines, Hospital, Nova Prospekt, Technical trainstation and Aperture Laboratories
 * Properly format the external links references with citeweb

Created articles


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

Acknowledgments
I'd like to thank to 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

 * MattDienhoff for his professionalism
 * YabbaMyIcing for sticking around
 * 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, and his hi-res RtB scans
 * HGrunt for his deep knowledge of the Beta and neat fixed maps
 * Flat Zeus for his fixed brushes, maps and other nice stuff