Talk:Halo.Bungie.Org

Media References

One thing that would really help this page survive until more substantial content can be added would be if we could get more references to occsions when HBO was mentioned by (relatively) major media outlets- not just by name, the mention has to be substantial. I included the Cybex strategy guide as a starter. I know the entry isn't the highest quality yet, but it gets the idea across. This page could use a few more entries like that. Gspawn 21:59, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Ok that works, I can't find the link of Wu's interview on video game violence. That should be added to the Media References section too, I thought I had that in here actually--DanteThePoet 04:08, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm... I also wanna throw a couple ideas up. For one, I added the Yellow Banshee, which everyone needs to learn/know about. And I'm moving the first paragraph to the top. In addition to eliminating the double headline (Halo.bungie.org right below itself because of the banner), it'll also provide an intro paragraph before the article, which I personally think looks nice. Opinions? Gspawn 19:36, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Er, actually, I can't find a good fix for that... Other than potentially removing the banner, which I don't really wanna do... ? Gspawn 19:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I like that set up, I didn't think to move the content box. The yellow banshee is a good idea to add in there I think, if you find a way that looks cool, go ahead and add it, I have no ideas at 4 am--DanteThePoet 09:00, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Should I add anything on the Halo Story Page or Movie Cynics, or will that be nnecessary? UrsusArctos 24 April 2006

Regarding edit on this talk page made by User:66:140.60.107

I made the previous edit (wasn't logged in) sorry. --Robert Harrison^{talk contrib} 07:09, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Major rewrite

Three tags on top of this page? Why doesn't someone clean things up?

*crickets*

Well, all right.

First of all, I revised wording pretty much everywhere. In general I aimed for short, dense sentences, with only a few phrases, rather than long, sprawling ones, such as this one. I also removed value judgments: "The community involved in HBO is large" is not exactly useful information, nor is it verifiable. Finally, I changed "<size> as of <date>" to "over <size>", which reads much better and is still accurate.

In addition, I removed a fair bit of what I thought was extraneous information. What the top two movies on MPRRS are isn't really important to the article, especially since the system is flawed. ("Warthog Jump" might be worth mentioning, though.) A lot of the One One Se7en information was unneeded as well. Finally, I cut the Fan Fiction and IRC sections altogether; they are mentioned earlier, and nothing in those sections was actually note-worthy enough to keep. If someone wants to find enough real information, you would be entirely justified in restoring either of them.

The only significant content I added was the section detailing Bungie's involvement with the site.

Somewhat unrelated to my edit: I have always thought of HBO as halo.bungie.org, that is, all lowercase. The page's title and opening line have it as Halo.Bungie.Org. My thought, incomplete though is may be, is that the phrase is a reference to the web address, not a title in and of itself, and thus should follow convention for web addresses. I am open to debate, however.

--Khaim 17:56, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, the two top videos on the MPRRS were submitted before the system was compromised. --Jim Raynor 19:38, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

The site's own About page calls it halo.bungie.org, as does the copyright notice at the bottom of every page. --DocumentN (talk) 04:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

One One Se7en

Has Bungie ever acknowledged One One Se7en officially at all? Something like offering a One One Se7en player icon or theme/skin, or including a strip or piece of art on one of the extras CDs or something? --DocumentN (talk) 00:44, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Owned by Bungie?

It says that the site is owned by Bungie.Org. I'm not sure. Since Before I first visited the site in 2003, at the bottom it always said that it was not affiliated with Bungie. I think someone wrote it wrong, propbably mistaking ".bungie.org" as a domain name.OsirisV (talk) 14:04, 24 July 2008 (UTC) Well, you have to have an 'owner' cat, and so I put the general domain. Bungie.org isn't Bungie, so whats the issue? Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^(talk) 14:11, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

It's a fansite, it doesn't belong to Bungie. --UNSC Trooper (talk) 12:34, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

GA Review

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GA Review

I have decided to put the article on hold until a few minor problems are addressed. Overall the article meets most of the criteria for a good article however there are a few problems which if corrected within 7 days, will get the article to good article level.

Firstly, Halo.Bungie.Org grew to become the most widely-read Halo fansite, receiving more than a half-million page views a day in 2007 needs a reference and i notice it is mentioned further down the article. This information can be challenged and so needs a source to confirm that it gets this amount of hits per day.

Also the article needs to be read through as there are a lot of unnecessary commas and punctuation which means the article doesn't make sense in places and doesn't flow.

Claude Errera and several friends first created bungie.org for developer Bungie's other video games, namely Marathon, in 1998; previous to bungie.org, Errera had been involved in other Bungie-related sites. doesn't need the semi-colon.

Spelling though was good.

26 May 1999 doesn't really need to be linked as it doesn't relate to the article specifically.

Finally, maybe merge sections of the overview with the intro and history as a lot of the content is mentioned already.

However if these are addressed and fixed then it will get its good article rating

Ajpralston1 (talk) 14:17, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

I have broken the aforementioned sentence into two, removing the semi colon, added a citation to the lead and delinked the dates. Can you give examples of other places where there is unnecessary punctuation? --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^(talk) 17:31, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

• The site was started in 1999 as Blam.bungie.org, based no comma needed
• on May 26, 1999 after no comma needed
• Gradually, one staffer dropped out, followed by another shortly after Bungie's acquisition by Microsoft, leaving Errera the sole webmaster and the main force on the site. This sentence needs to be changed

ie Over time one member of staff dropped out followed by another shortly after Bungie's acquisition by Microsoft, leaving Errera the sole webmaster and the main force on the site.

• widely-read Halo fansite; in 2007, it Maybe remove semi-colon and split to 2 sentences

ie. widely-read Halo fansite. In 2007 it...

• contant > constant

It just makes it read better. A comma should really only be used when the reader needs to take a breath or pause during a long sentence. Apart from those examples thats it.

Ajpralston1 (talk) 21:13, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Made the above fixes. --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^(talk) 17:59, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Move

Actually, the name for this subject is halo.bungie.org, according to Halopedia. Move failed because a redirect stopped me. EthanGaming7640 (talk) 23:36, 14 September 2021 (UTC)