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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

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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] Participants

Schoon - I have a fairly extensive fluff knowledge spanning almost 2 decades, can do vector graphics, and maintain the Schola Progenium webpage. I'm happy to help out.
Primarch- I'm happy to help. Though my 40k knowledge is mostly limited to Space Marines, especially first founding legions/chapters.
Localzuk ^(talk)
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.
lordevilvenom Big fan of warhammer in general, happy to help.
Cailil
Shrumster 21:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC) Been playing since the end of 2nd ed, I'd be glad to help. Trying to get the fiction-as-fact taken off many of the articles by rewriting stuff.
Subwoofler - I haven't played very much, but I have many Army books and Codexes lying around along with some old White Dwarfs. I mainly play Warhammer Fantasy, but I have a pretty deep knowled of WH40K.
Pterodactal
Fearless Son - I have been into Warhammer for over a decade now, and am particularly fond of getting to know all of the fluff. I think that I have gotten a fair amount of information to add, plus my abilities as an editor.
The "Morphy hunter" - Hey, happy to help, big fan and collector.
Alt-o - I'm reasonably new to the whole wiki thing, and my 40K knowledge is largely limited to the Imperium especially the Gaurd but I'll help out wherever / whenever needed.
--Chickenfeed9 19:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC) - Ive played for some time now, mostly with tau and space marines. I'll help out where I can.
Dasleah 00:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC) - I'll help where I can. Knowledge from RT to 4th Edition, mostly of the obscure.
Darkson - BANG! 20:40, 28 February 2007 (UTC) - I'll help out to the limt of my ability. Playing (or reading) 40k for to long now.
RCanine 21:43, 04 March 2007 (UTC) - Addict of Tau fluff and citations.
Guilliaman Fairly new to the 40k scene, but I tend to do a lot of research. Anything I can do to help, mostly just Tyranids and Space Marines, those being the only two codexes (spelling?) I have

[edit] Articles - Creating an Article

[edit] Article Structure & Layout

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 is by no means complete. Please add any more groups that you think are commonplace.

Characters
Armies, Species and Racesthe
Army Chapters and Legions
Planets
Events
General Guidelines (suggested merge with above)

[edit] Proposed Goals

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

[edit] References, Bibliography and Sources

References List

This is a listing of the references (complete with templates) that should be used when creating articles.

It is also suggested that a separate Bibliography section and a References section be added at the end of an article. The Bibliography section would contain only the most general references that apply to an article, while the References would have specific references used point-by-point for the article content.

Is is suggested that the reflist style be used for the references section, while the appropriate citation templates be used for the bibliography section.

[edit] Categories

This is a listing of all Warhammer 40,000-related categories on Wikipedia. When creating an article, be sure to pick the appropriate category for the article.

Category:Warhammer 40,000

[edit] Templates

See subpage Wikipedia:WikiProject Warhammer 40,000/Templates

This is a listing of the Warhammer 40,000-related templates available for article creation. When creating a Warhammer 40,000-related article, please use the appropriate template if applicable, and remember to add the {{Warhammer 40,000 Project}} template to the article's talk page.

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

[edit] Projects

[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.

Example article: User:Example

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Warhammer 40,000

Main article: Warhammer 40,000
Everything else should be listed in Category:Warhammer 40,000 or one of its sub-categories.

[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.

Ecclesiarchy

[edit] New images

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

Requested moves:
Proposed mergers
- Great Crusade to History of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Sojourner001 21:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- Maugan Ra, Eldrad Ulthran And Phoenix Lord to List of Eldar (Warhammer 40,000). These are stubs and would comply with the discussion mass merger proposal 2.1Pterodactal 10:24, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  - Maugan Ra is not tagged for a merger; if you are proposing this, please read WP:MERGE --Pak21 10:48, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  - I have read WP:MERGE and have tagged the article Pterodactal 00:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
- Propose Powerfist and Lightning Claw are merged. Darkson - BANG! 18:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Requests for Comments:

[edit] Votes for deletion

Proposed deletion
Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
Deletion review (Article undeletion):
Templates for deletion:
Categories for discussion:
Images for deletion:
Redirects for deletion:

[edit] Requests

A listing of requests pertaining to articles, images and whatnot.

[edit] Articles

Listing of requests concerning articles.

[edit] Articles for Creation

This is a listing of requested articles for creation. Once the articles have been created, please move them to the relevant section (i.e. articles for expansion).

Can we get an article for some of the space marine special characters? I've noticed there aren't any!

Actually there are articles for nearly every space marine character which has been defined as notable, these pages can be found through the chapter pages of that marine eg. Mephiston in the Blood Angels or Ragnar Blackmane in the Space Wolves page. hope that helps :) Lowris 12:50, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

What about the Tyrannic War Vetrans? Would they classify as a special character? They do have their own section in the Space Marine Codex, in the special characters pages, but they don't have an incredibly different setup.

Also, regarding the Warhammer 40,000 novels, such as Nightbringer, could those be used in the history sections as fluff? --Guilliaman 14:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for Expansion

A list of articles that need to be expanded/bulked up.

Note: Please remove from this section once the article is sufficiently expanded.

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)

I don't quite know what all I can do, but I just got done reading His Last Command with Gaunt's Ghosts and the attack and then bombardment of the Mons. If that's ok, then I can help--Guilliaman 09:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Just recently created page stubs for Andy Chambers, Jervis Johnson and Rick Priestley. Anyone who can expand these, please do so carefully. We have to adhere to WP:BLP with these. Shrumster 10:49, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for Evaluation

A listing of articles for general evaluation. Whether you think the article needs to be rewritten, cleaned-up, wikified, sourced or grilled and roasted, this is the list for it.

Note: Please remove from this section once the article is sufficiently fixed.

Would members mind checking out my latest edits to the Night Lords page? I have attempted to bring it more in line with the WP:WAF by removing in-universe tone, fan speculation, original research and purple prose (I found that the majority of the article was either paraphrased or plagiarised straight from the Night Lords IA article. It needed removal anyway). Subsequently, there have been concerns raised that the edits are too drastic. I've stated some of my reasoning on the discussion page for that article and am happy to discuss further. Ultimately, I'd like to rewrite the entire article to a similar degree, and follow on with the rest of the legion articles.Primarch 14:13, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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 someone please look at the Dark Angels page - I think that the fluff is plagiarised word for word from Codex: Angels of Death mattbuck 10:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for Cleanup

This is a listing for articles that you think may need cleanup. To posters, please indicate (in bold text) what specifically needs cleaning-up about the article, whether it is written in-universe, context, tone or anything else.

Note: Please remove from this section once the article is sufficiently cleaned-up.

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)
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 did a cleanup of the main Chaos (Warhammer) article this afternoon.--DarthBinky 03:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
  - I did cleanup to the four major gods mentioned above, and tried to standardize them so they all look about the same. Other Chaos articles could still use work, notably Horus Heresy (which is way too in-depth and in-universe) and Chaos Space Marines.--DarthBinky 22:52, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
    - It appears the articles for the nine Chaos Legions (Black Legion (Warhammer 40,000), Death Guard, Emperor's Children, Word Bearers, Iron Warriors, World Eaters, Thousand Sons, Night Lords, Alpha Legion) need cleanup too. All appear to be very in-universe, and in most cases are rehashes of the Adeptus Astartes articles (they may even be just copies of them- I don't have the articles handy to check); some even contained actual game rules, which should be a major no-no (if it isn't already). I removed the game rules, but the articles could still use work. --DarthBinky 14:14, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Listing of requests concerning images.

[edit] Image Upload

This is a listing of image upload requests. Please provide details for images that you want uploaded, and what page(s) they will be used for. Some helpful details would be the miniature itself, what version of the miniature, any specific army/color-scheme and the camera angle (if applicable) and distance.

Request. Close-up screenshots of Land Speeder, Rhino, Land Raider, Dreadnought (both hellfire and AC+DCCW dread), Predator, Thunderhawk and Drop Pod from Dawn of War. For use with Vehicles of the Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000). Shrumster 10:01, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Miscellany

[edit] Miscellany for Evaluation

Proposed Guidelines
- I've put together a first draft of some general style guidelines at /Style (largely based on saberwyn's 40k Glossary). Please look, comment and improve. Cheers --Pak21 11:31, 20 May 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)

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