Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Help

The Lexicanum is a free encyclopaedia containing information related to Warhammer 40,000 and other game settings created by Games Workshop and its subsidiaries. The following articles provide information about using and contributing to the Lexicanum.

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User buttons - Overview of the user buttons at the top right of the page User pages - How to use the user pages Preferences - How to use the preferences page Watchlist - How to use the watchlist Contributions - How to use the contributions list Action buttons - Overview of the action buttons at the top of every article Navigation buttons - Overview of the navigation buttons on the left Navigation - How to use the navigation buttons Categories Recent changes Lexicanum wikis Community - Where the Lexicanum community hangs out Sister sites Search - How to use the search feature Tools - How to use the toolbox pages What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Page information to do most important tools to do Editing buttons - Overview of the editing buttons found when editing an article	to do General article structure - How a page should be structured in general. Categories/Categorisation - How are article structures arranged? Citations - How to correctly add sources and footnotes. to do Articles - Guides to how to write articles for the Lexicanum. to do On-line manual - A detailed reference guide to the Wiki coding language. to do Guidelines - Advice on the formatting of Lexicanum articles Content: Allowed content - Material and content allowed on the Lexicanum Forbidden content - Material and content not allowed on the Lexicanum Quarantined content - Material and content that has been temporarily removed from the Lexicanum due to insufficient sources but has been preserved for potential reinclusion if and when proper sources and/ or verification have been provided to do Templates - Templates used for various articles on Lexicanum Redirects - How to decide when to use and how to implement a redirect Internal link External link	Image upload help - How to upload images to correct standards to do Image use help - How to use images once they are uploaded
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Alphabetical quick reference guide

A

Abbreviations
Administrators
- Super-Administrators
Advanced search
Age of Sigmar wiki
API sandbox
Article structure:
- General article structure:
  - "See also" section (also known as "Further reading" section)
    - "Related articles" section
    - "Related products" section
  - "Trivia" section
  - "Sources" section
  - Article categories
Atom

B

Banning policy
Behaviour guidelines
Biography - personal (in Account requests)
Block log
Book sources (as in where to find them)
"Brown" links
Bureaucrats

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

Lexicanum:
- other Lexicanum wikis
Links:
Lists:
Login / create account
Logs:
- all public logs
- Block log
- Content model change log
- Deletion log
- Import log
- Interwiki table log
- Merge log
- Move log
- Patrol log
- Protection log
- Tag log
- Tag management log
- Upload log
- User creation log
- User rights log

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N

O

P

Q

R

S

Search
- Search for duplicate files
- Search and filter files by MIME type
"See also" section
Signature
Sister sites
Special characters (as in symbols/ letters)
Special pages tools
Sources:
- Accepted sources
- Conflicting sources
- How to source
- Most wanted sources
- Book sources (as in where to find them)
Statistics
- File/ media statistics
Super-Administrators
Sysops
System messages

T

U

Undelete pages
Upload an image or other file
- Upload log
"Normal" Users
User name
User account:
- Request account
- Log into account
- Create account (only for Administrators and Bureaucrats)
- User creation log
User rights log

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W

X

Y

Z

To do

Alphabetical quick reference guide
Check and list special pages, attention to what pages are available to which user group

Other

Attention Adept of the LEXICANUM!

This article is being created or revised.
Please consider this before you edit this text!

To include somewhere

Overhauled:

To overhaul/ rewrite/ create/ fuse/ delete

writing guide: tenses --> General Manual of Style
needed: specific template for files that were uploaded without a sufficient source
needed: template to replace broken sources as in offline webpages: Template:Replace citation
Internet Archive
Bots
Maintenance reports:
Lists of pages
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Login / create account
Users and rights

Page history
Special pages
Main page
Community portal
disambiguation, use only Template: "ambiguous", not "otheruses"
upper and lower case problem/capitalization - Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Spelling and grammar
where to include the thing about how names are sorted by their last names into categories?
Page move - don't forget to point out "Merge histories"
Internet Archive
Sources section
Quotes section
Immaterium
include explicit info that user accounts cannot be deleted due to restrictictions in Mediawiki, only inactivated by blocking
elaborate on the difference between "lore" and product pages
Useful_Links and Category:Websites_and_Forums
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tables Help: could be useful
QuoteBox formatting
Warhammer_40k_-_Lexicanum:Codex_Lexicanum - will be created at the very end as a handy reference
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Contributing
Category:Lexicanum maintenance
Category:Format
Category:Template documentation
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:FAQ
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Galactic Map: Map not available for download anymore
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:General Article Structure
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:General disclaimer
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Getting started
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Guide to Article Writing
Warhammer_40k_-_Lexicanum:Guidelines --> will become Codex:Lexicanum
Lexicanum:Image Categories: this will be a nightmare.
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Image Use Help
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Image Upload Help
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Lead section: probably not needed.
Main Page
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Requested articles: Keep or kill?
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Spacecraft Article Design: uhhhmmm, I don't know where to stick this kind of stuff
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:First Steps: check for useful elements and delete.
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Second Steps: check for useful elements and delete.
Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tutorial: check for useful elements and decide if to delete.
- Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tutorial (Page 1)
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Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Vandalism
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User:Digganob/Index: Salvage useful items, then delete.

Items to include somewhere

Lists

Items for SPECIAL attention

Checked templates to include

Templates to check/ overhaul

Template:Delete
Template:Titan legion -> remove automated "unknown" entries
Template:Clear --> What does it do?

New templates needed

template to mark articles that require screenshots under new citations rules
template to tell people about potentially unused sources on the talk page
biography template for characters
maybe a template to mark articles pointing at free and legal official pdf files
template to mark weird wording
template to mark wrong formatting of old sources

Retired templates

Tasks for beginners

hunt and correct typos
correct grammar mistakes
improve style and simplify sentences
de-quarantine content
quarantine insufficiently sourced/ unsourced content including all "Cite this" marked content
categorize uncategorized files, uncategorized articles and uncategorized categories
check listed but so far (allegedly) unused sources
replace external links with archived links and hunt down expired external links
standardize source formats according to citation rules
complete archived links with screenshots
complete video game and CCG sources with screenshots
remove unsourced "unknown" entries, especially from tables
remove personal interpretation/ extrapolation from articles
add missing or additional useful categories to articles and files
check short articles if more content can be added

Other things to do

create a centralized external link dump to document external links that have been replaced by better sources
reorganization of Galactic map images by segmentae
write guideline about type and use of artworks in articles
eliminate all author names from sources
eliminate all page/pages abbrevations that are not pg./pgs.
replace GWCopyright everywhere with Copyright
specify that on no account sources can stretch over several chapters with the exception of maybe the summary at the beginning of the article

External links that have to be replaced

all Regimental Standard links as site offline as of 04 June 2024