Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Help

Helpful articles

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.

Practice and learn here: The Immaterium
Lexicanum Interface	Article writing	Images and files
Atom 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 Random Page 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 In other languages to do most important tools to do Editing buttons - Overview of the editing buttons found when editing an article Lexicanum Policy Banning policy Deletion policy Forbidden content	Accepted sources to do General article structure - How a page should be structured in general. Categories/Categorisation - How are article structures arranged? Lists - A list of lists. 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. Namespace Templates - Templates used for various articles on Lexicanum See also Signature Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Tables Help Trivia Redirects - How to decide when to use and how to implement a redirect Internal link External link Interlexicanum 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	Image upload help - How to upload images to correct standards to do Image use help - How to use images once they are uploaded to do Image Categories - Comprehensive list of image categories Gallery of new files Most linked-to files Upload file
		Users
		User Types Editors Administrator Bureaucrat Bots - For experienced users only! User name User page User talk page First steps - Great for beginners. Tutorial - A presentation of basic text formatting and editing. to do FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions Guidelines - Guidelines on user behaviour and editing. Discussion Discord server to do Helpful articles - List of all articles in the category Help. Most wanted sources to do Lexicanum maintenance to do System image dump to do Online sources dump Graphics dump

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
• Biography - personal (in Account requests)
• Block log
• Book sources (as in where to find them)
• Bots
• "Brown" links
• Bureaucrats

C

• Canon
• Canon conflict
• Categories
  • Most used categories
  • Pages that use most different categories
  • Hidden categories
• Changes - overview of recent ones
• Changes - overview of related ones
• Change tags
• Chat
• Citations
• Community
• Conflicting sources
• Content:
  • Forbidden content
  • Deletion/ removal of content
• Content model:
  • Change content model of a page
  • Content model change log

D

• Data and tools
• Deletion candidates
• Deletion log
• Deletion policy
• Differences between revisions
• Discord Server
• Double redirect
• List of files with duplicates
• Search for duplicate files

E

• Editors
• Edits:
  • Overview of recent edits
  • Pages with most edits
• Expand templates
• Export pages
• External links
• External links search in Lexicanum pages

F

• File:
  • File list
  • List of files with duplicates
  • Most often used files
  • Gallery of new files
  • File statistics
  • File upload
  • Search for duplicate files
  • Search and filter files by MIME type
  • File upload help
• Forbidden content
• Forum
• "Further reading" section

G

• Gallery of new files
• "Go" search

H

• Hidden categories
• High use pages

I

• Identify a specific revision of a page
• Image upload
  • Image upload help
  • Most often used images
  • Gallery of new images
• The Immaterium
• Import pages
  • Import log
• Technical information about a page
• Interlexicanum
  • Pages with most Interlexicanum links
  • View and edit interwiki data
  • Interwiki table log
• Internal links

L

• Lexicanum:
  • other Lexicanum wikis
• Links:
  • All links to a specific page
  • "Brown" links
  • External links
  • Internal links
  • Permanent links
  • "Red" links
  • Version-specific links
• Lists:
  • List of files
  • List of most often used categories
  • List of files with duplicates
  • List of most often used files
  • List of pages with most edits
  • List of pages with most Interlexicanum links
  • List of pages with most revisions
  • List of most often linked-to pages
  • List of pages with biggest number of categories
  • List of most used templates
• 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

M

• Mass delete
• Media reports and uploads
• Media statistics
• Mediawiki version
• Merge page histories
  • Merge log
• MIME search
• Monitoring changes to specific pages
• Move log

N

• Namespace
• Naming conventions
• Navigation
• Nuke

P

• Pages:
  • Compare two different pages
  • Export pages
  • Import pages
  • Page information
• Find, view and restore deleted pages
  • Mass deletion of pages
  • Pages that use most different categories
  • Pages with most edits
  • Pages with most revisions
  • Most linked-to pages
  • Random page
• Page history
  • Merge page histories
• Page tools
• Patrol log
• PDF of a page
• Permanent links
• Personal biography
• Policy
• Practice here
• Print a page
• Protection log

R

• Random page
  • Random page in category
  • Random redirect
• Recent changes
• Recent changes and logs
• "Red" links
• Redirect
  • Random redirect
  • Redirect by file, user, page, revision, or log ID
• Redirecting special pages
• Related changes
• "Related articles" section
• "Related products" section
• Removal of content
• Restore deleted pages
• Revisions:
  • Revision ID
  • Pages with most revisions

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

• Tags
  • Tag log
  • Tag management log
• Technical information about a page
• Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Templates
  • Most used templates
  • Expand templates
• Testing grounds
• Transclusion
• Trivia

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

V

• Valid change tags
• Varia
• Version of Mediawiki

W

• Warhammer Fantasy Battle wiki
• Watchlist
• Web feed (Atom)
• "What links here" tool

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 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
• Maintenance reports:
  • Broken redirects
  • Dead-end pages
  • Double redirects
  • Long pages
  • Oldest pages
  • Orphaned pages
  • Pages with the fewest revisions
  • Pages without language links
  • Protected pages
  • Protected titles
  • Short pages
  • Uncategorized categories
  • Uncategorized files
  • Uncategorized pages
  • Uncategorized templates
  • Unused categories
  • Unused files
  • Unused templates
  • Unwatched pages
  • Wanted categories
  • Wanted files
  • Wanted pages
  • Wanted templates
• Lists of pages
  • All pages
  • All pages with prefix
  • Categories
  • List of redirects
  • Pages with a page property
  • Search
  • Tracking categories
• Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Login / create account
  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Request account
• Users and rights
  • Active user list
  • Autoblocks
  • Block user
  • Blocked users
  • Bot passwords
  • Change credentials
  • Change or remove email address
  • Confirm account requests
  • Deleted user contributions
  • Grants
  • Preferences
  • Remove credentials
  • Reset password
  • Reset tokens
  • Unblock user
  • User contributions
  • User credentials
  • User group rights
  • User list
  • User 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
• 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: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:Vandalism
• {{DEFAULTSORT:Leorac, Covan}}
• User:Digganob/Index: Salvage useful items, then delete.

Items for SPECIAL attention

• Category:Hidden categories
• Category:Lexicanum_deletion_candidates

Checked templates to include

• Template:Dont Delete This Line (Immaterium)
• Template:Replace citation

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

• Template:Article is orphaned
• Template:Article has been protected
• Template:Missing category
• Template:Copyright infringement
• Template:Previous editions content
• Template:Image Copyright Needed
• Template:Image needed
• Template:Images needing renaming
• Template:Images needing a source
• Template:In-universe
• Template:Expired source
• Template:Incomplete source
• Template:Additional sources needed
• Template:Spamsuspect
• Template:Stub
  • Template:Substub
  • Template:Incomplete
• Template:Users causing problems
• Template:Event(s) missing from Timeline
• No extrapolation

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