Help:Status icons

This page provides information on Halopedia's status icons, also known as status labels or page status indicators.

Overview
On Halopedia, status icons categorize pages in the wiki. Articles are indicated with status icons for the reader’s quick reference.

The most common type of status icon features an icon on the left, with its text label. For example, if a page is primarily discussing gameplay, the status icon will say "Gameplay". These icons may indicate the canon status of the subject or the function of a real world page. Certain icons denote a featured or protected article on the wiki.

The crunch
If you're already familiar with Halopedia pages, you may be familiar with era icons. Status icons were created to replace era icons. Era icons were originally created to categorize pages according to where the subject appeared in the Halo universe timeline, with real world articles being denoted with a "real world" icon. However, this eventually led to an issue where there's a mismatch between subjects and their era icons, like a Covenant topic being given a "UNSC" era icon because it appeared during the years of human interplanetary colonization. Thus, this necessitated the introduction of a replacement system.

Every icon in the status icon system was designed with the purpose of categorizing content down to its base roots within fiction, the real world, and/or namespaces.

Status icons
Below is a list of every status icon and their expected use case.

Fiction canon specifications
These showcase the canon status among the main narratives in Halo fiction:

Emergency canon cases
These are emergency status icons in preparation for unforeseen events:

Real world
This is the status icon to use if the article is based in the real-world:

Namespaces
These are status icons that apply to various projects and namespaces, never to be used on the main space:

Other
This is the catch-all status icon. If an article has no known status, does not fall under the existing statuses, or you do not know what to class it under, please use this:

Protected
When a page is locked, it will automatically be given one of these status icons to denote what type of lock is on the page:

Featured
If an article is featured, please use this icon on the page: