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 and the Layout Guide before doing anything.

My Steam username is "lempea".

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. This list will become official one day, and they will be categorized as "Good articles" for the short ones and "Featured articles" for the long ones.


 * Gordon Freeman
 * City 17 trainstations
 * Rail-based transportation
 * Hospital
 * White Forest Mines
 * Mortar Synth
 * Crab Synth
 * Bullsquid
 * The Wasteland
 * Moby Francke
 * Chuck Jones
 * Dhabih Eng
 * Ted Backman
 * Viktor Antonov
 * The Fisherman
 * Stanley Rosenburg
 * Boid
 * Harry S. Robins
 * Michael Shapiro
 * Gina Cross
 * Colette Green
 * Aperture Laboratories
 * Light Stalk (although the Xen Flora article layout is yet to be defined)
 * Stephen Bahl
 * Randy Pitchford

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

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

Pictures

 * 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

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?
 * 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 + 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
 * Mention the Conscripts in the Combine articles (create a proper factions article?) + correct the airex references (+ train crash from RtB) + complete infos weather control
 * Add info from Laidlaw's vault
 * HL2 2 hazard courses
 * 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)

Templates

 * Finish adding the proper game infobox to each game and mod article (Erickos?)
 * Sort the templates categories
 * 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
 * Add MobyGames people links to the game infoboxes

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.


 * Randy Pitchford
 * Hazard Course (Blue Shift)
 * Stephen Bahl
 * Moby Francke
 * The Wasteland
 * Chuck Jones
 * Dhabih Eng
 * Ted Backman
 * Viktor Antonov
 * City 17 trainstations
 * 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.‎
 * 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.