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.

I also contribute to Wookieepedia.

Registering
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Fanon and trivia
Be careful when you add fanon, pointless and irrelevant trivia and pictures you don't have a purpose for. They will be deleted.

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.


 * Gordon Freeman
 * City 17 Trainstation
 * Rail-based transportation
 * Hospital

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
 * 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
 * "You" can only be used in the walkthroughs, all the other instances must be replace by "the player" or Gordon Freeman (or just Gordon)
 * Rewrite the City 17 article, especially the origins section. "Some fans think" is not very serious
 * Merge the Barney / Barney Calhoun articles
 * Be sure that all mods walkthroughs have been removed - concentrate on the canon material
 * Add related game names categories in all articles
 * Define a capitalization standard for the weapons and the 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

Names

 * Is Menta Ray the real name?
 * Check all the locations for canon and or/conjecture titles (are Dockyards Station or Underground Railroad canon or fanon names?)
 * Find possible real names of the Xen flora with conj names

Pictures

 * Razor train chicken
 * New pics of city test fixed
 * Add a picture of the early "clamp" design of the Citadel and its other designs
 * Is the Combine war pic canon?
 * Define a width standard for the infobox pics
 * Remove MI screenshots for the weapons when it's not justified
 * Create more subject subcategories for the pics
 * Explain Aperture and Black Mesa names and logos
 * Add more concept art
 * Add more images to Ravenholm
 * Pick up Nova Prospekt pictures and include them in the article after a rewrite
 * More Chell pictures
 * Add a pic of the ongoing battle for the Nexus
 * Add Combine Tech images to their category
 * Cat for the Combine soldier pics
 * More screenshots from RP Central
 * Dog vs Strider
 * Add a pic of the leak APC + Combine truck in the article
 * Pic of the yellow Bullsquid
 * Add the pics of the real world models for HL2

Articles to create or subjects to mention in existing pages

 * Add RtB info for the Combine tech
 * ApertureScience.com + small guide
 * Quiver/Prospero
 * Vents
 * Samuel
 * Natural Selection
 * Chuck Jones
 * Dhabih Eng
 * 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
 * Create an article for the overall HL series + the recurring themes
 * Sand barnacle
 * Mention the old City 17 outer concrete wall + pic

Templates

 * Add Location_Infobox to each location 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

Created pages


I also created a lot of templates and categories, but it would be pointless to mention them all here.


 * 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 Room
 * 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