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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Warhammer 40,000. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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WikiProject on Warhammer 40,000

[edit] Scope

This project is intended to bring some order, consistency and restraint to the 'legion' of articles that are now on Wikipedia relating to Warhammer 40,000. Hopefully, it should reduce the numbers of articles to a managable level (through merging), and improve the overall quality of the articles. It should also allow a set of rules to be implemented for the articles that prevent their future decline into a non-encyclopedic state.

[edit] Parentage

Father of this WikiProject is WikiProject Role-playing games

Mother of this WikiProject is WikiProject Computer and video games

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

[edit] Participants

  • Primarch- I'm happy to help. Though my 40k knowledge is mostly limited to Space Marines, especially first founding legions/chapters.
  • Localzuk (talk)
  • Pak21
  • A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops)
  • SAMAS
  • Culverin
  • DarthBinky
  • Saberwyn - Wikibreak from June to August inclusive
  • Cygnus360
  • the wub "?!"
  • Falcorian (talk) - I'll help with what I can.
  • Lowris
  • CB319 - Just tell me what to do, and I'll do it.
  • Robert Mercer - Although I don't play it at the moment, I was into WH40K in my teens and I've even still got my original battle-scarred copy of Rogue Trader, as well as a load of old back issues of White Dwarf mags from the 1980s. I hope I can help out with the nostalgic end of the project.
  • Ariedartin - Located in Singapore.
  • Usiel - Added info on Power Armour and Bolter Ammunition a while ago. Still keen to help out and add whatever relevant info I can find.
  • Colonel Marksman - You will find me just about everywhere. I'm making as much contribution for a better project here.
  • Xasf
  • Emperors Harbinger
  • Rsquire - just started doing wiki, current player but more intrested in the 'fluff'. Hope I can help.
  • PIngp0NG - I'm a big 40K fan, player, and reader of 40K fiction. I'd like to help. I also took the Tyranid picture being used in the template!
  • Grant McKenna 01:41, 11 July 2006 (UTC)] I've been playing since Laserburn, back in 1981- and now that I have seven months until I go back to university, I'm going to have fun.
  • Ancalagon06 I've played since I was 14, so 8 years of WFB and WH40K under my belt. Let's get it on!
  • Sojourner001 Yo.
  • necrowaiio0 ive played this game 4 ages.
  • Dangman4ever I'll help out when I can.
  • MSJapan 13:23, 26 August 2006 (UTC) -- I'll add whatever I can to the project.
  • Rogue 9 Project copyeditor.
  • Irongargoyle
  • l0b0t and the Guild Expeditionary Force will be happy to join the fight.
  • Aun'va I can help, although I only really know about tau. But give me something to do and I will.
  • Scumbag, a newbie to non-Dawn of War WH40k, will edit articles so that people like him can get a clear, easilly-understandable article every time.
  • Sasuke Sarutobi - never played much, but I was deeply into fluff; I have about 80 issues of the UK White Dwarf, as well as almost every 3rd edition Imperial Codex, and numerous other books. Will also help with tone, clarification and restructuring.

[edit] Structure

As there are quite a few different types of article relating to Warhammer 40,000, this section will provide links to subpages defining each one in turn.

The list above is by no means complete, add any more groups that you think are common place.

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

[edit] Proposed Goals

  1. Provide a series of guidelines to allow conformity between the articles.
  2. Provide notability critera for characters
  3. Provide guidelines on inclusion critera for canon and non-canon information
  4. Ensure all articles have references.
  5. Merge some of the small articles into related articles of greater size.

[edit] Projects

  1.  ?

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

  • /General
  • /Strategy

[edit] Other subpages

[edit] Templates

See subpage Wikipedia:WikiProject Warhammer 40,000/Templates

[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Warhammer 40,000

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Warhammer 40,000

Please feel free to list your new Warhammer 40,000-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] New images

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Votes for deletion

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Warhammer 40,000

  • Proposed deletion
    • Age of Apostasy: non-encyclopedic datadump --Pak21 09:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
      • Removed Prod. Article needs clean up to standards of Age of Strife or the Horus Heresy, not deletion. --Falcorian (talk) 05:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
        • Further research reveals the whole thing is a copyvio from here, which I personally suspect is a copyvio from somewhere else. I've reverted to the revision prior to that. --Pak21 08:07, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Aajz Solari --Pak21 08:17, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Tyndarian 24th Light Infantry and Reconnaissance - the wub "?!" 10:40, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
      • Deleted
  • Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
  • Deletion review (Article undeletion):
  • Templates for deletion:
  • Categories for discussion:
  • Images for deletion:
    • Image:Nightlords.gif: orphaned fair use image
      • Deleted --Pak21 09:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
    • A whole bunch of the Commons images have been marked for speedy deletion as copyright violations. I'm not really sure as to why yet, but am investigating. --Pak21 11:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
      • While the editor who has tagged the images is being remarkably unhelpful, it appears that Commons:Derivative works would apply here and those images are going to have to be deleted from Commons. We'll have to consider what we want to do about getting them back onto Wikipedia as a fair-use image. --Pak21 11:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirects for deletion:

[edit] Requests

  • The Chaos Legion pages seem to have taken on a lot more gaming information than previously- especially in the combat doctrine. Should there be an effort to separate 40k game terminology from 40k fiction/fluff?Primarch 00:39, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Could I direct project members to the Horus Rising discussion page? There's some debate over whether or not to include personal theories to explain Sanguinnius' hair colour being different in the novel as opposed to previous canonical depictions. Input would be appreciated.Primarch 23:47, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Never mind. A consensus has been reached.Primarch 10:34, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Istvaan? Isstvan? Somebody must know which is canonical. --Pak21 08:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
    • I have only seen Istvaan. MSJapan 14:44, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
      • Galaxy In Flames, the most recent publication to name the planet, has spelled it Isstvan.Primarch 23:47, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Could somebody look through the recent additions to List of Space Marine Chapters and work out which are canonical? Cheers --Pak21 08:46, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Done -- I removed them all :-) --Pak21 13:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Timeline of the Warhammer 40,000 universe: this has survived AfD, but is frankly a complete mess. I really have no idea what to do with it, and personally am intending to let it bitrot. --Pak21 09:17, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
    • When I have some time I plan to look through it. --Falcorian (talk) 21:51, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
  • In the references list, Xenology had somehow (almost certainly a copy-and-paste error by me, but I haven't actually checked the history) acquired the ISBN of Fire Warrior; this error may well have propogated into articles, but I can't find an easy way to check for this. If you see any references to Xenology, please check the ISBN: it should be 1-84416-282-6, not 1-84416-010-6. Cheers --Pak21 13:10, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
    • Yeah, it did get put in a few articles. I'm fixing it when I run into it. --Falcorian (talk) 19:35, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Many of the articles dealing with Chaos, such as the main Chaos (Warhammer) article itself and the ones for the gods (Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, Tzeentch) could use somewhat major cleanup- they often have problems with tone, "gamerspeak", and unsourced/unverifiable statements, and so on. I'll try to get to them myself at some point (since I seem to be the Chaos expert at the moment), but I'm working on getting a teaching job, which will cut down on my time (especially if I get it). There's a lot of crossover with Warhammer Fantasy involved, so knowledge of that system will probably be helpful. --DarthBinky 15:32, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I've started a rewrite of the Adeptus Mechanicus article, but feel there is still much room for improvement. If anyone could help out, that'd be great. Cygnus360 09:44, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Expansion of Tanith (Warhammer 40,000) with info from Guns of Tanith onwards, as I don't own any of those books. Background info on Tanith, as well as 'history' of the Ghosts. -- saberwyn 13:12, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
  • More character briefings on other civilisations other than the imperium. Necrowarrio0 06:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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