Help:Status icons

From Halopedia, the Halo wiki

This help page provides information on Status Icons; also known as Status Labels; or Page status indicators.

Overview

Status Icons on Halopedia are primarily to help readers get a quick view of the status of a page, and how it fits into the wiki.

The most common type of status icon features an icon on the left, with text directly saying what the icon is for. If a page is primarily "Gameplay" in nature, the Status Icon will say "Gameplay". These icons are dedicated to telling the reader what a page is about very quickly.

There is also icons to show if an icon is featured or protected, these are icons to quickly the "status" of an article.

The crunch

If you're familiar with Halopedia pages already, you may be familiar with Era Icons, these Status Icons were created directly to replace them. Era Icons were originally created to do a similar job, but with a focus on putting content into "Eras", this causes an issue where some subjects didn't fit a specific "Era" or area they covered, and over time status icons became an issue needing to be fixed.

So every icon in the Status Icon system was planned to put a lot of content down to common or their base roots with "Fiction", "Real world", and "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:

Type of Status Wikitext What you see About
Canon
{{Status|Canon}}
Status Label for Canon articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Halo fiction that is part of "core" canon. (This may include some Apocrypha media mixed in.)
Apocrypha
{{Status|Apocrypha}}
Status Label for Apocrypha articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Halo fiction that is apocrypha canon. This is media that is not yet confirmed to be in "core" canon. Media listed as such include "Marketing" and "Toy" fiction.
Non-Canon
{{Status|NonCanon}}
Status Label for Non-Canon articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Halo fiction that is officially released non-canon. Examples include "Halo: Legends - Odd One Out", and the "Hellspartans".
Fracture
{{Status|Fracture}}
Status Label for Fracture articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Halo fiction that is officially released "Fracture" fiction that is not "core" canon, "core" Apocrypha, or "core" non-canon. Examples include the Yoroi armor in Halo Infinite.
Silver Timeline
{{Status|Silver}}
Status Label for Silver Timeline articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Halo fiction that is part of the Silver Timeline.

Emergency canon cases

These are emergency status icons in preparation for unforeseen events:

Type of Status Wikitext What you see About
Alt-Canon
{{Status|AltCanon}}
Status Label for Alt-Canon articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Emergency status icon for an alternative timeline that is not part of the same canon as the main Halo universe and TV show universe. If confirmed, will create a page called "PAGENAME/AltCanon" if the subject already exists in one canon or another.

Real world

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

Type of Status Wikitext What you see About
Real World
{{Status|RealWorld}}
Status Label for Real World articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Status icon for real-world topics that do not exist in the Halo universe. These include companies and people.
Gameplay
{{Status|Gameplay}}
Status Label for Gameplay articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Status icon for gameplay topics. These include achievements and gameplay medals.

Namespaces

These are status icons that would apply to the various projects and namespaces. Never use these on the main space:

Type of Status Wikitext What you see About
Halopedia
{{Status|Halopedia}}
Status Label for Halopedia articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Status icon for "Halopedia" pages. This is mostly on "Halopedia:" and "Help:" namespaces.
Archive
{{Status|Archive}}
Status Label for Canon articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Status icon archives and other similar things. This is mostly on the "Archive:" namespace.
News
{{Status|News}}
Status Label for News articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Status icon for news Halopedia puts out. This is only on the "News:" namespace.

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!

Type of Status Wikitext What you see About
Other
{{Status|Other}}
Status Label for articles status being discussed. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Status icon for stuff that doesn't fall under stuff listed in this list. When used please put the information in a forum topic to discuss.}}

Protected

If an article is locked, please use one of these pending the type of lock on the article alongside a normal status icon:

Type of Status Wikitext What you see About
Fully Protected
{{Status|FullyProtected}}
Status Label for Locked articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. These are articles that are protected from all users from being edited. This is usually put on policy and help pages.}}
Upcoming Protected
{{Status|UpcomingProtected}}
Status Label for Locked articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. These are articles that are protected due to upcoming media and suspected vandalism.
Vandal Protected
{{Status|VandalProtected}}
Status Label for Locked articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Articles temporary-locked due to edit wars or constant vandalism. These last 1 week.
Semi Protected
{{Status|SemiProtected}}
Status Label for Locked articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. Articles that are protected due to high risk. Users can only edit these pages when their account reaches 3 days of age and 5 edits.
Locked
{{Status|Locked}}
Status Label for Locked articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. This is automatically applied to articles if an article is locked.

Featured

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

Type of Status Wikitext What you see About
Featured
{{Status|Featured}}
Status Label for Featured articles. Designed by Alexis Jonsson (WyvernZu) and some iconography used from 343 Industries. This is for media that is featured by us at Halopedia!}}