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Contents 1 On my removal of CD track and midi info 2 Major cleanup 3 Level Info 4 Renamed

[edit] On my removal of CD track and midi info

A recent addition the names of the music files used in the game brought home to me the fact that the list of what CD tracks were used in what maps was never really encyclopedic or important in the first place. Same goes for the music files.--Drat (Talk) 14:40, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Major cleanup

I did a major cleanup on this article, mostly organizing the player classes and inserted a new section on polyobjects and ACS scripts. I've made levels with scripts, so I'm pretty sure that's fine, but could someone check on the technical part of the polyobjects? I'm not exactly the expert on BSP and I can't really understand all the source code... Well I also removed the last section - "Bosses." It pretty much covered the stuff in List of enemies in HeXen, but I changed some stuff there, and put a link there from here. I'll probably add more about the story later, and I also need to redo the references/footnotes (I was lazy, sorry). Eh, I'll get to it later I hope. Horncomposer 10:34, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Level Info

Personally i'd like to propose to remove the level info from the article -- it adds nothing. If we had something interesting to say about the levels we could move it to a seperate article or wikibooks, but this list, in my opinion, adds nothing to the article -- De Zeurkous (zeurkous@mariblaat.nichten.info), Wed Jul 12 16:57:17 UTC 2006

I agree. A mere list of levels adds no pratical value to an encyclopedia article. I think the most that should be said could be an overview of each hub and how it relates to the "story," but even this may be too much. I'll hold off on editing that section for now though, to see what others may have to say. --Horncomposer 22:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Renamed

Hi. I've renamed this and every other article I could find to change "HeXen" to "Hexen". The former seems to be an attempt at using capitalisation to emulate the appearance of the logo, but the name itself is Hexen. This is similar to people who use "DooM" when refering to Doom. There's some more relevant information to this on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks). Fragglet 11:59, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Raven Software consistently uses "HeXen on their site and this would seem to fall under the camelcase judgement call. I think "HeXen" was correct. Ace of Sevens 03:15, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

The CamelCase argument refers to when two words are combined into a single one to form a trademark. This isn't the case with Hexen, which is a german word meaning "to practice sorcery". Fragglet 09:32, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't see why the principle wouldn't apply here. The policy seems mainly to oppose all-caps except in the case of acronyms and the like. See eXistenZ for another Wikipedia example of unusual captalizations being accepted. Ace of Sevens 13:08, 14 July 2006 (UTC)