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 * Note:This page is Halopedia's community center. It's a forum to ask questions and propose projects.  Once the project is agreed upon it is moved to Halopedia:Projects for further discussion and action.



Halopedia Image Gallery
Just thinking that to really improve the space we need some more graphics like they have at Wookieepedia. A Halopedia Image Gallery has been created and I hope everyone can show off their Photoshop skills.

Think you know everything?
So think you know everything about the Halo universe? Well then you can help clear up Heretic lies from Gospel truth! These articles need proof!!  Please add sources or confirm that they are in fact lies told by the unbelievers! Some examples:


 * What is a Kelorist? See the Reference here Mamore

Firefox Halopedia Toolbar
It's like the google toolbar --Doomguy0505 07:41, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Download it at Halopedia:Search Plugin --Doomguy0505 10:54, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * What does it do? -- Esemono 12:30, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Here's a screenshot http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/8198/hpediavj5.th.jpg

Halopedia Clan

 * Anyone interested in a Halo 2 clan for Halopedia, please post your gamertag. --Dragonclaws 08:10, 3 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I do as im told, Climax Void --Climax Viod 12:15, 3 November 2006 (UTC)


 * SWAHSparatn117--JohnSpartan117 15:11, 6 November 2006 (UTC)


 * It said that gamertag doesn't exist, so I sent an invite to SWAHSpartan117 instead. I hope that's you. --Dragonclaws 22:52, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * It says it is on his user page, im surprised more people arnt interested in this Clan ---Climax Viod 14:03, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


 * If anyone is interested in sending me an invite to the halopedia clan, I'd be most gracious. Gamertage-TayTayTheSarge [Love-A friend of a friend] -- User:CaptainAdamGraves 00:03, 11 November 2006
 * Digipatd--Digipatd 20:23, 10 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Mine is Zarengo just like that, but i may not be online for a while cuz my x-box is not working, and is being repaired right now--Radzon 06:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah thats me, it was just a typo, sorry...--JohnSpartan117 08:34, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm Relentless70. I'd gladly join...but...ok...what's the organizational scheme that'll be runnin'? I'm a 24, SPARTAN-117 is a 10, Climax is a 3...Cheers, 49 Proximal Secant[ oracle ][[Image:H3 Monitor.PNG|25px]] 04:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Mine is Ryanngreenday-- ryan  n  green '' day 21:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes send mando ade a clan invite--Unggoy 17:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)


 * GPersonyThingy I don't even have to sign, and you know who it is... Whatever:  Guesty - Persony - Thingy  01:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * You guys want to play together for the three hours in the Halo 3 beta contest? --Dragonclaws 07:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Whats that?-- ryan  n  green '' day 20:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Spartan-104 -- Spartan-104 21:00 23 January 2007


 * If you play 3 hours of games in Halo 2 on Xbox Live between 12:01 AM (EST) on February 1, 2007 and 11:59 PM (EST) on February 3rd, 2007, and then be one of the first 13,333 to register on halo3.com, you are entered into a contest to be a Halo 3 beta-tester. Bungie mentions it here. --Dragonclaws 22:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd like that. Cheers, 49 Proximal Secant[ oracle ][[Image:H3 Monitor.PNG|25px]] 01:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Dragonclaws || Quetsalcoatl || 14 @ BTB Skirmish Climax Viod || Climax Void || 3 @ Rumble Pit R-R || Relentless70 || 24 @ Team Slayer Cpt. Graves || TayTayTheSarge || 29 @ Team Slayer JohnSpartan117 || SWAHSpartan117 || 10 @ Team Slayer Digipatd || Digipatd || 6 @ Team Slayer, BTB Skirmish ryanngreenday || Ryanngreenday 13 @ BTB Skirmish

Has anyone ever heard of the clan called The king of kings i got a clan invite from a user from it he is level 20. No one is ever on from the halopedia clan but me and some times climax.-- ryan  n  green '' day 22:16, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * never heard of it. anyways, when I get on XBL soon, I'll be on. don't worry.

Download all the custom gametypes in one file
Download them at http://gimehost.com/v/7738393/1163071574318.doc.html

The Ark or Ark

 * Talk pages keep disappearing, including the Reach talk page and the Ark talk page. i've posted valid arguments on some things in both articles, and the day after i post them, they disappear. odd. Vikedal 01:48, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The vandal you refer to is User:RelentlessRecusant who on 16:58, 9 December 2006 moved the article "The Ark" to "Ark" but didn't move the Talk page with comments on it. -- Esemono 04:19, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Vote for Article Name

 * Change to The Ark (2)
 * Change to Ark (4)


 * Change to The Ark - Now I propose that this be reversed as "The Ark" is a better name for the article -- Esemono 04:19, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed The Ark--User:JohnSpartan117 05:30, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ark - there is never a "the" in the article name, as per Wikipedia standards!  -49 Proximal Secant [ Relentless  Recusant [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]]] 20:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Halopedia is not Wikipedia. -- Esemono 03:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Why does it matter if they redirect to each other anyway?--User:JohnSpartan117 23:00, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Besides broken redirects, it's not really a big issue. This vote is more to prevent users from switching it back and forth every couple of weeks.  If there is a consensus then we can point to this vote and say this article title has been deemed "The Ark" or "Ark" -- Esemono 03:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I would like to remind my esteemed colleagues that Wikipedia is the basis of all Wikias, and its guidelines are upheld by many Wikias, including the greatest in size of them all: Wookieepedia. Cheers,  -49 Proximal Secant [ Relentless  Recusant [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]]] 03:39, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Again Halopedia IS NOT wikipedia or Wookiepedia for that matter -- Esemono 23:10, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Vikedal 19:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The Ark Simply because it's the name of the object O_o. As much as wikipedia standards say "No The in the title", this is halopedia, not wikipedia.
 * Ark Not because of Wikipedia, but because it's simpler. To have an article say "Why, the Ark, of course." is more natural than "Why, The Ark, of course." --Dragonclaws 19:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ark I change my mind, it should be Ark because "The" is not part of the name. The Master Chief dosnt have "The" in the name of the article, so neither should the Ark.--User:JohnSpartan117 09:04, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Master Chief doesn't have a The because it's his rank of Master Chief Petty Officer, not The Master Chief Petty Officer.


 * I know...but they kind of use it to refer to him now! And in the third person its "the Master Chief" and the same goes for "the Ark". So ergo the page should be called Ark--User:JohnSpartan117 20:55, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * [Coughs to cover his snickering at John's sudden vote change...]  SPARTAN-091  [[Image:UNSC.jpg|15 px]] HelmetComm undefined Juliet  22:52, 26 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Ark Its jus the way things should be.-- ryan  n  green '' day 21:01, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

halo.wikia.com/wiki/Arbiter. You'll note that when we talk about the Master Chief or the Arbiter, we talk about the Master Chief, not The Master Chief. Its the same with the Ark. We talk about the Ark not The Ark.--RotBrandon 04:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Ark - The is an adjective that doesn't belong in titles. If I am sereaching for the Master Chief or the Arbiter, I don't put halo.wikia.com/wiki/The_Arbiter, I just put

How many Kill Shots page
Quick opinion, we as a community should compile a table of how many shots from each gun it takes to kill each enemy in their weak spot and torso, shielded and unshielded on each difficulty -- User:Spartan 1138

Im confused
Are "bad words" aload on this site because some users not all the time but still use the not so friendly words. I just thought I should bring this up.-- ryan  n  greenday 15:31, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd say they're allowed, but not recomended. We should be civil, and adding swear words to messages can upset civility. There are swears in Halo, and I think it would be hypocritical to ban it on Halopedia. --Dragonclaws 22:53, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Distress Signal! RE: Screenshots!
What's the best way to take Halo TV screenshots?

Cheers,

49 Proximal Secant[ oracle ] 04:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The best way, as in the way that gives the best quality, is to use a capture card to import it to your computer, and then either export that frame of the video, or pause it, take a screenshot, and crop the image to give only the image from Halo. The best way speedwise, is to use a digital camera, take a picture of your TV, and import it. This, BTW, is HORRIBLE with CRTs.  Guesty - Persony - Thingy  04:21, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey, would this be a good piece of hardware to buy for this purpose? --Dragonclaws(talk) 01:11, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

FanArt Committee
The current members of the 1st FanArt Committee (Term Jan - Mar 2007) are:


 * Dragonclaws
 * Ed
 * Ryanngreenday
 * Spartan-091
 * JohnSpartan117

Please if you have been chosen post your votes now. If you are not part of the committee plese enter what should be kept and what should go on the Halopedia:FanArt Rulings page!

2000
Did anyone notice we are over 2000 pages? excellent! -- Esemono 05:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Isn't it counting redirects? I think of it as minus about 500. --Dragonclaws 07:56, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * "There are 9,757 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Halopedia, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 2,103 pages that are probably legitimate content pages." Nope, we are officially over 2000.
 * That assumes it's working properly, though. It doesn't seem to skip over stub pages either. --Dragonclaws(talk) 05:20, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Rank Template Format
I was noticed that someone was adding some kind of infobox to the rank articles. The templates look cool but because there is almost no content on most of the rank pages the template mashes with the infobox to look like this, Private. Now someone figured out you can solve this problem but looking at the Marine Ranks it seemed so crowded and with the new Infoboxes the information is pushed out of view on the page. So I split the officers ranks into a new Template and then moved it to the top where can be easily seen for faster navigation through the ranks.

Well it looks good to me. But if anyone disagree comment under the feeback header. If there are no disagreements I'll change the other enlisted ranks too.

Feedback
A) Should the Officer ranks be split off like shown Major General B) Should the ranks be moved to the top of the page as shown in Major General

I've revamped most of the UNSC rank pages recently, and I've used Enlisted and Officer templates seperately (i.e. enlisted rank pages have an enlisted template at the bottom of the page (which tends not to clash with the rank infobox), and officer rank pages have an officer template at the bottom of the page). There is still the template showing both Marine enlisted and officer ranks (I've also created one for the Navy), but I think these should be restricted to the rank disambiguation page and the UNSC Navy / Marine Corps pages (under a heading such as rank structure). Does anyone else have any thoughts on the matter? --  Manticore  TalkundefinedCSV 07:21, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Image Categorization
Category:Stubs says we need to... "Add labels to all the image files! I know it seems like a hopeless task but if we all pitch in!" So I have decided to embark on a mission to categorize each and every image on this site, which will not only help with adding similar labels to similar files, but also with deleting unneeded, unwanted, or duplicate images. But since there are so many images on this site, so many possible categories, so many potential edits, I thought I should get the go-ahead from an admin before I start on this perilous journey. After all, if I screwed up somewhere, that would be a lot of editted edits, and I don't want to completely screw this site... or my reputation as a good editor. But more importantly this site. Yeah, so if you guys would be fine with it, just say the word, and I'll be on my merry way.  guesty - persony - thingy  20:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow that sounds great! Good Luck but you should decide what categories the images should go in before you set out.  It would actually probably be easier to add an image template to each image with a category embedded in the image.  For example edit the  template to add  to every page it is used. -- Esemono 02:06, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Image Categories
So try and map out which categories you're going to use, here are a couple I can think of:
 * Game Screenshots
 * Fan Art
 * Real world
 * HBO
 * Okay, thanks, and thanks for the advice and all that. I'll probably have a bunch of main categories, but I know that at least Game Screenshots and Fan Art will be heirarchies with UNSC, Covenant, Flood, Forerunner, and (possibly) Other subcategories. But when it comes to Real World, HBO, or any other possible categories, I'll figure it out when I get there. For now, I'll just start with making the Game Screenshots category, and later tonight I'll start sweeping through the Covenant pages and categorizing every picture I come across.  guesty - persony - thingy  03:41, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds good! Remember you can also look through Halopedia's list of images -- Esemono 03:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but there are so many horribly badly named images and images not relating to Halo and all kinds of stuff like that, and then it's just going from first to last... geh.... Instead, I'm going to use a more methodical method (actually, it's less methodical, since it's not first-to-last, but I'm starting with Covenant, then moving to UNSC... you know, so it seems more methodical), and hopefully that'll clear it up a bit first, and then I'll be using the list of uncategorized images once that gets under way. Anyway, I'll be starting in a couple minutes, so you won't see me editting main namespace pages or actually adding content for a couple hours. Cheers!  guesty - persony - thingy  03:57, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Freelancer:Combat Evolved
Hi im new to Halopedia and some users have already taken a look at my Profile page and they like the look of Freelancer:Combat Evolved, which is a total conversion mod for the old microsoft gamr freelancer, Currently Jaythepilot is looking for a clan to set ONI up in so i thought of you guys, and would it be possiable to link the FL:CE forums from the main page or should i say make a new page, the game is strict to canon and its currently going through Alpha testing so its not anywhere finished, so if you have freelancer and would like to play take a look at my profile page fr info about it, some videos and some pictures as well as a battle summery for a TE (Territorial Engagement). --DarkAngel 03:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Halo Fanon/Fanstuff
Hey, me and RelentlessRecusant, made the Halo Fanon/Fanstuff Wiki. And I request that we work together. You guys would be the like a Knowledge base and we at the Halo Fanon would be the Fanstuff area. We added a link to this wiki and are asking that you guys also please do the same for us. Thanks, H*bad 19:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * To add a "Friend" you need five votes here

I had an idea
I’ve had an amazing idea; As certain Users have more knowledge in different areas of the Halo Universe why not chose a main user to keep an eye on, watch over those certain articles e.g. the star ship articles Relentless worked hard on, or all the weapon articles. They would be like Semi Admins with no privileges it would just be their job to make sure that there was no Fan Fiction or over vandalism in their articles and start up votes for articles deletion or merging; Users could go to them to refure data and so on. They could be chosen by the Admins or elected by the users meaning starting up campaigns which would be very amusing. And given Titles to fit their job e.g. Imperial Admiral it was just a thought. --Climax Viod 15:47, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I had a similar idea. Cheers, TRU7H 17:08, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

As did I.-- ryan  n  green '' day 19:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yea, but the highest authory should go to the couserlers, (the admins should receave this rank), and every three months, an admin should give the rank to someone else, and to handle the chaos of this site, there should have a total of seven admins, three as the main rulers, and four as sub-admins, to matain control.-- Admiral Sozai Nexes  [[Image:.jpg|15 px]] FLEETCOMM  22:15, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * We don't need to do things by Bungie numbers. --Dragonclaws(talk) 22:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Why not WikiProject type things instead? A group to watch over certain pages instead of one user. While RR has worked hard on them, so has Ed. It seems unnecessarally hieratic to nominate one leading user for each category when wikis are such group projects. --Dragonclaws(talk) 22:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Nice idea Dragonclaws lets do that, How should i start up a project page ? --Climax Viod 22:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Another thing is that it isn't possible to give admin powers over a certain amnount of pages. Sysop privledges work for everything or nothing. So even if you got the title, it wouldn't really change your abilities... -ED 17:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Faults with images
Faults with images onCouncillor could some one check it out i cant fix it --Climax Viod 20:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Do you see this? I noticed that on a few pages, but thought it was because my browser (IE7) has problems with the wiki code. Perhaps it should be reported to Wikia? --Dragonclaws(talk) 23:26, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * We're looking into this now. Angela talk 00:33, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I've added some CSS to MediaWiki:Common.css to fix this temporarily until Splarka finds out why the position: static that was causing this bug was added in the first place. Angela talk 01:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

More subjects
hey im kinda new here at halopedia and does anyone know some new articles that should be made maybe i can start on some??- User:SPARTAN-410 01:35, 20 January 2007

Hey can someone make a new article about Halo ideas, talking about ideas that would be cool for a new halo game and multiplayer? Joshua 029
 * That wouldn't be a real article, though. Just make a thread in the forum. --Dragonclaws(talk) 23:41, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Summary of the Halo Universe
I was just thinking about people who stumble onto the site from the Wikia Spotlight. Surely not everyone knows what Halo is, and the site would be confusing to them. I say we write a general summary of Halo to link to on the main page in "Welcome to Halopedia, the definitive source for Halo information." --Dragonclaws(talk) 23:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Great idea. let me know if theres anything i can do.- User: Spartan 1138

Vandalism
It should be noted that there has been several resent cases of vandalism on the site. I have done what I can but I can only do so much. I move that there be edititing restrictions, such as a system where proposed edits must be approved by a committee, or that you must be a registered user. User: Spartan 1138

Agreed. Perhaps the more common pages, such as; Master Chief, Halo(main page), Halo 2(main page), etc., should be locked so that only an admin or users that have been here for a set amount of time could change it. Or at least restrict editing to accounts only, so that the vandals can't use random IP adresses. Those were just a few suggestions I thought I would put out there. Spartan-1138's idea was fine too. Lekrel 19:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * We have a number of faithful users who don't make accounts, so it wouldn't be entirtely fair. I would say that the best restriction we could do is to semi-protect page creation so that only members can make new pages on the site. That's how others have done it in the past. -ED 19:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)