User:Klow



"Our cause seems hopeless."

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- Rebel about Wikia's slow cache

Howdy! 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 and the Layout Guide before doing anything.

My Steam username is "lempea". Feel free to join our official Steam group, and spread the word.

I also contribute to Wookieepedia.

Good articles
In my opinion, here are articles I consider to be in good condition. Writing, sourcing, spelling, images, official layout, etc. are good. In brief, they are clean. There are obviously some more than that since they are only the onces I checked and am watching. Somme of the items of this list will become an official list one day, and they will be categorized as "Good articles" for the short ones and "Featured articles" for the long ones.

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
 * Brush Combine tech pics
 * Add other resistance stuff such as old radios, and lots of other stuff in the canals, mostly seen with the airboat
 * Write a Manual of Style for the mod pages
 * Cleanup and complete the minor char page
 * 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 dialogs exactly (not the subtitles, since they are sometimes wrong). And it's a big waste of time since most of them were added very not so long ago.
 * 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 (+ mention the old City 17 outer concrete wall already spoken about in the Wasteland article)
 * Add related game names categories in all articles (a lot has been done on that recently, thanks a lot Donovan)
 * Define a capitalization standard for weapons and enemies
 * Remove all unnecessary capitalization in page subtitles (a lot is already done)
 * Properly source all articles when needed
 * Re-read all the articles and make heavy rewrites
 * There are too many irrelevant "See also" through the wiki (I think most of them are gone now)
 * Add official links to the main page
 * Reorganize the main page
 * Finish removing all the walkthroughs and add more images in the storyline articles when needed + external walkthrough links + easter eggs coverage

Names

 * Is Menta Ray the real name?
 * Is Sprite the real name? Because Sprite is also the name of the files
 * Check all the locations for canon and or/conjecture titles, and source them
 * Find possible real names of the Xen flora with conj names
 * Homo Sapiens Combinus
 * Gonarch or the Gonarch? Is that a type of Headcrab or a character?
 * split the needed borealis links to the cut article

Images



 * Pics for each Portal test chamber
 * Add more pics of City 17, Canals, Citadel, Ravenholm, APCs evolution through WC mappack maps
 * Maybe replace the Combine war pic, not canon
 * Apply the width standard for the infobox pics, which is 250px 99% of the time (most of it is done, I think, unless someone changes it)
 * Explain Aperture and Black Mesa names and logos
 * More Chell pictures
 * Add a pic of the ongoing battle for the Nexus
 * Add Combine Tech images to their category
 * Dog vs Strider pic
 * Add the RtB pics of the real world model actors for HL2
 * Add pics of the 3 Manhack Arcade facades and insides
 * Add pic of the light stalk under the Combine Factories
 * Separate the Headcrab pics
 * Better Dyson Poincaré full body pic
 * \hl2\materials\Models\extras pics
 * hl2\materials\Models\Weapons pics
 * Lambda Core shotgun scientist

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
 * Add RtB info for the Combine tech
 * ApertureScience.com + small guide?
 * 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 + pic
 * Add a footnote for the HL2 in-universe date
 * Mention the cut sand barnacle
 * Mention the issue/inconsistency with the suit helmet
 * Forum:Valve game wikis
 * Mention the Beta Combine watchtower + pic
 * proto_core
 * Cut vehicles: Digger, Combine truck, 4 old APCs, shuttle, old razor train, airex truck, jetski
 * Nevsky Prospekt
 * Add info from Laidlaw's vault
 * HL2 2 hazard courses
 * 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
 * this is sparta
 * calhoun locker contents
 * http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Portal_(game)

Templates

 * Finish adding the proper game infobox to each game and mod article (Erickos?)
 * Create a section template for non canon material (for Lost Coast in the Gordon page)
 * Add the DEFAULTSORT to the real-world people articles
 * Finish fixing the misspelled quotes + the quote template
 * Apply the two new fields in the characters info template
 * Finish adding MobyGames people links to the game infoboxes
 * Rework the sidebar

Articles created
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.

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.