Help:Contents

This page details all of relevant project and help pages, features and a few other relevant pages on Halopedia. Consider it as a general overview of what is (and was) available on Halopedia. We hope you enjoy using and editing Halopedia!

General information
General information about the website is listed on out the "About" page. We also have a history page devoted to the evolution of Halopedia. Check below to read all about Halopedia and why you should join up.


 * About
 * FAQ
 * Why create an account?
 * Privacy Policy
 * Simplified Ruleset


 * Useful tips
 * What Halopedia is
 * Copyright
 * History
 * Halopedia in the media

Wiki information and projects
Halopedia has several ongoing projects and several other things that you can help with. Check below to see how you can help the wiki.


 * General disclaimer
 * Ongoing projects
 * Featured
 * Sandbox


 * Find or fix a stub
 * Active requests
 * Timeline
 * Merger project

Social locations
We have several places you can interact with other members of the Halopedia community, ranging from our internal Forums, to various Social Media. Check out the following pages below to see how you can talk to other users.
 * Discord
 * Social media
 * Forums
 * Forum archive Note these are no longer used please use the actual forums

Rules and policies
On Halopedia we follow a few different ways of doing things regaring Editing, Uploading, our social features, and many other stuff. A quick rundown can be found in our simplified rules, but everything is listed down below.

Editing the wiki

 * Citation
 * Protected pages
 * Spoilers
 * Vandalism


 * Notability Policy
 * Blocking Policy
 * Deletion Policy
 * CheckUser

Uploading media

 * Media Policy
 * Personal Image Policy


 * Image Use Policy
 * Duplicate Images

Social features

 * Signatures
 * Voting
 * Community

Miscellaneous

 * Chat Policy
 * Bots
 * Canon
 * Copyright
 * Halopedia within the wider community

Usergroups and roles
The wiki receives tons of visitors daily. The community of Halopedia grows by the week, as does the quality of the site. In response Halopedia uses several roles and usergroups to help keep the wiki organized.

General information

 * Usergroup and role basics
 * Requests for adminship
 * User space


 * Changing username
 * Rollback

Wiki usergroups

 * Developers
 * Bureaucrats
 * Administrators


 * Patrollers
 * Halopedians
 * Bots

Help and guidelines pages
If you have any questions regarding editing, read our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). If your answer isn't there, ask your question on the discussion page for the FAQ.

Guidelines

 * Manual of Style
 * Layout Guide
 * Namespaces
 * Dealing with vandalism
 * Grammar Guide

Editing and file upload

 * Searching
 * Disambiguation pages
 * Editing
 * Images
 * Links
 * References
 * Tables
 * Templates
 * Videos


 * Walkthroughs
 * Format
 * Color codes
 * Title restrictions
 * CSS
 * List
 * License
 * Media
 * Redirect

Social
Halopedia is one of the very few independent wikis that provides social features for its users. In addition to the freedom to personalise your userpage, and earn wiki points and receive wiki achievements by editing!


 * Avatars
 * Awards
 * User profiles
 * Communication
 * Talk pages


 * Signatures
 * User preferences
 * Wallpapers
 * Social media boxes

Before you begin contributing to Halopedia, please take our policies into consideration. That way, your contributions can be as helpful to Halopedia and its community of users as possible.

Special pages
The following pages were made to help both the users and the administrators of Halopedia. Anyone is welcome to use them.


 * Candidates for deletion
 * Blocked users

Remember that above all else, this is a collaborative knowledge-base dedicated to the Halo universe. Excluding those things mentioned in the guidelines, any content that you can contribute to Halopedia is very appreciated!