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Article Improvement Drive is a community project to improve the wiki's content through bringing articles in dire need of improvement—from cleanup to content expansion and updates—to everyone's attention. Ideally, the list will be refreshed with a new set of articles every week as the articles are fixed; however, if given articles on the list have not received the necessary attention by the end of this period, those articles will be kept on the list until they require no further improvement. An article is considered sufficiently repaired when it is properly sourced, accurate, comprehensive and well formatted—in short, up to our general standards of quality.

Everyone is welcome to participate in the improvement effort or suggest new articles to the list on the project's talk page.

Current articles

Week 52 / 2014

Issue 13 of Halo: Escalation will be released this week! Be sure to add the new information to all relevant articles, including the following:
1. Halo: Escalation Issue 13 (plot synopsis!)
2. Catherine Halsey
3. Jul 'Mdama
4. Fireteam Majestic
5. Gabriel Thorne
6. Sarah Palmer
7. Thomas Lasky
8. 2558
9. Battle of Oban
The Halo: Nightfall Second Stories require articles and transcripts!
Mission to Alpha Shard requires a detailed description of the event
Terrorist attack on Sedra City requires a detailed description of the event (the Second Stories have a fair amount of additional information)
Randall Aiken requires information on his role during the Alpha Shard mission
Many Halo: Broken Circle-related articles are still awaiting major content updates (or creation), including but not limited to the following:
1. Ussa 'Xellus (biography following the events of the preview chapters)
2. Sooln 'Xellus (biography following the events of the preview chapters)
3. Ernicka the Scar-Maker
4. Tersa 'Gunok
5. Bal'Tol 'Xellus
Halo 5: Guardians and Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta along with all related pages (e.g. Spartan abilities and weapons) need to be kept up to speed with new information
Be sure to update all relevant articles with new information from Halo Waypoint's new Universe section, although remember to use your own words as opposed to copying the content verbatim in accordance with the Manual of Style. The species entries in particular contain a fair amount of new information:
1. Unggoy

Ongoing projects

Template:Walkthrough Infobox needs to be added to walkthrough articles lacking it.
The list of Forge objects needs to be updated to include all Halo 4-related material, including creation of subpages for each individual category.
Many Halo 4 multiplayer map articles need to be expanded with information on map layout, features and gameplay strategies. See Avalanche for reference of a comprehensive map article.
Game level transcripts need to be formatted in accordance with the the Layout Guide; for most articles, this means the standardization of the way characters and other subjects are referenced (e.g. omitting superfluous or overly long titles/ranks), as well as the addition of music tracks playing at a given time.
Quote pages need to be updated according to the Layout Guide. For example, insignificant lines which are not quotable in any fashion should be removed. In addition, quotes which are part of a dialog between the subject and another character should feature a transcript of the lines of both characters as opposed to only those spoken by the title character. For an example of this in practice, see Forthencho/Quotes.
Template:Soundtrack (transcluded in most articles under its old name "Halo music") needs to have a subtemplate specified in articles about individual music tracks; e.g. Halo: Combat Evolved tracks should use the {{Sountrack|H1}} template and so on (see the Sountrack template for a full list of the subtemplates). In case any of the articles has the parent category "Soundtrack" manually inserted, it should be removed as well along with other possible formatting improvements. You can find these pages by browsing the Soundtrack category.
We are in the process of clarifying the nature of the factions that emerged during the Great Schism. The labels "Covenant loyalists" and "Covenant separatists", widely used by the wiki, are inaccurate as the Sangheili only threatened to resign from the High Council and did not secede of their own accord. Thus, other terms should be used to identify the parties involved; examples of acceptable terminology for the so-called "separatists" include "the Sangheili" or "Sangheili-led Covenant", etc. while the opposing side may be identified by their loyalty to the Prophet of Truth, or their military's leadership by the Jiralhanae. The Sangheili aligned with the Arbiter and allied with humanity may be identified with the title "Swords of Sanghelios", although it is better to use the title sparingly in reference to events during the Covenant War, as the name was (seemingly) adopted in the post-war era. Also note that this group does not constitute the entirety of the Sangheili species; the splinter group formed by Xytan 'Jar Wattinree, for example, is considered its own faction, and the majority of the Sangheili were unaligned with any particular group during the first days of the Great Schism.

Articles to be created

The following is a list of articles that have not yet been created, along with relevant sources from which to draw information:

Red links in Halo: Broken Circle appearances
Bornstellar's ancilla (Halo: Cryptum)
Bornstellar's mother (Halo: Cryptum)
Bornstellar's sister (Halo: Cryptum)
Earth Survey Catalog (Halo: Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets, page 64)
Lifeworker beacon (Halo: Primordium pages 88-89, 184, 374, Halo: Silentium pages 17-18)
Forerunner power station (Halo: Primordium, page 161)
Full Disclosure Directive (Infinity Briefing Packet)
Slipspace field shunt (Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 371)
Grappling round (Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 272)
Solar power pack (Halo: Glasslands, page 262)
Forerunner bio-sentry (Halo: Glasslands, pages 40-41, 77-78, 166, 169, 202-203)
Self-amalgamating tape (Halo: Glasslands, page 262)
Acoustic dampening field (Bungie.net: Hog, Halo: Glasslands page 137, Halo: The Thursday War page 104)
Science Team Gagarin (Spartan Ops, Episode 2, Chapter 5 Gagarin)
Andy Dudynsky
Jeff Easterling

Previous weeks

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 #{{AID|}} Be sure to update all relevant articles with new information from [https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe Halo Waypoint's new Universe section], although remember to use your own words as opposed to copying the content verbatim in accordance with the [[Halopedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]. The species entries in particular contain a fair amount of new information:
 ##{{AID|}} [[Unggoy]]
-#{{AID|}} References to "Covenant separatists," "Covenant loyalists" or "Thel 'Vadam's Covenant faction" need to be removed. Links have already been removed, but a more thorough revision of articles needs to be done. "Separatists" and "Loyalists" were never canonically acceptable terms, based on a misunderstanding about the origins of the Great Schism, and should no longer be used.
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 #{{AID|}} Quote pages need to be updated according to the [[Halopedia:Layout Guide/Quotes|Layout Guide]]. For example, insignificant lines which are not quotable in any fashion should be removed. In addition, quotes which are part of a dialog between the subject and another character should feature a transcript of the lines of both characters as opposed to only those spoken by the title character. For an example of this in practice, see [[Forthencho/Quotes]].
 #{{AID|}} [[:Template:Soundtrack]] (transcluded in most articles under its old name "Halo music") needs to have a subtemplate specified in articles about individual music tracks; e.g. ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' tracks should use the <code><nowiki>{{Sountrack|H1}}</nowiki></code> template and so on (see the Sountrack template for a full list of the subtemplates). In case any of the articles has the parent category "Soundtrack" manually inserted, it should be removed as well along with other possible formatting improvements. You can find these pages by browsing the [[:Category:Soundtrack|Soundtrack]] category.
-#{{AID|}} We are in the process of clarifying the nature of the [[Covenant remnants|factions that emerged]] during the [[Great Schism]]. The labels "Covenant loyalists" and "Covenant separatists", widely used by the wiki, are inaccurate as the Sangheili were cast out of the High Council and did not secede of their own accord. Thus, other terms should be used to identify the parties involved; examples of acceptable terminology for the so-called "separatists" include "the Sangheili" or "Sangheili-led Covenant", etc. while the opposing side may be identified by their loyalty to the Prophet of Truth, or their military's leadership by the Jiralhanae. The Sangheili aligned with the Arbiter and allied with humanity may be identified with the title "[[Swords of Sanghelios]]", although it is better to use the title sparingly in reference to events during the Covenant War, as the name was (seemingly) adopted in the post-war era. Also note that this group does not constitute the entirety of the Sangheili species; the [[Joyous Exultation alliance|splinter group formed by Xytan 'Jar Wattinree]], for example, is considered its own faction, and the majority of the Sangheili were unaligned with any particular group during the first days of the Great Schism.
+#{{AID|}} We are in the process of clarifying the nature of the [[Covenant remnants|factions that emerged]] during the [[Great Schism]]. The labels "Covenant loyalists" and "Covenant separatists", widely used by the wiki, are inaccurate as the Sangheili only ''threatened'' to resign from the High Council and did not secede of their own accord. Thus, other terms should be used to identify the parties involved; examples of acceptable terminology for the so-called "separatists" include "the Sangheili" or "Sangheili-led Covenant", etc. while the opposing side may be identified by their loyalty to the Prophet of Truth, or their military's leadership by the Jiralhanae. The Sangheili aligned with the Arbiter and allied with humanity may be identified with the title "[[Swords of Sanghelios]]", although it is better to use the title sparingly in reference to events during the Covenant War, as the name was (seemingly) adopted in the post-war era. Also note that this group does not constitute the entirety of the Sangheili species; the [[Joyous Exultation alliance|splinter group formed by Xytan 'Jar Wattinree]], for example, is considered its own faction, and the majority of the Sangheili were unaligned with any particular group during the first days of the Great Schism.
 ==Articles to be created==