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Contents 1 On my removal of CD track and midi info 2 Major cleanup 3 Level Info 4 Renamed 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Hexenbox.jpg 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Hexenbox.jpg 7 Trivia Section 8 Original title 9 I added more details and tactical notes to the characters section

[edit] On my removal of CD track and midi info

A recent addition the names of the music files used in the game brought home to me the fact that the list of what CD tracks were used in what maps was never really encyclopedic or important in the first place. Same goes for the music files.--Drat (Talk) 14:40, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Major cleanup

I did a major cleanup on this article, mostly organizing the player classes and inserted a new section on polyobjects and ACS scripts. I've made levels with scripts, so I'm pretty sure that's fine, but could someone check on the technical part of the polyobjects? I'm not exactly the expert on BSP and I can't really understand all the source code... Well I also removed the last section - "Bosses." It pretty much covered the stuff in List of enemies in HeXen, but I changed some stuff there, and put a link there from here. I'll probably add more about the story later, and I also need to redo the references/footnotes (I was lazy, sorry). Eh, I'll get to it later I hope. Horncomposer 10:34, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Level Info

Personally i'd like to propose to remove the level info from the article -- it adds nothing. If we had something interesting to say about the levels we could move it to a seperate article or wikibooks, but this list, in my opinion, adds nothing to the article -- De Zeurkous (zeurkous@mariblaat.nichten.info), Wed Jul 12 16:57:17 UTC 2006

I agree. A mere list of levels adds no pratical value to an encyclopedia article. I think the most that should be said could be an overview of each hub and how it relates to the "story," but even this may be too much. I'll hold off on editing that section for now though, to see what others may have to say. --Horncomposer 22:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Renamed

Hi. I've renamed this and every other article I could find to change "HeXen" to "Hexen". The former seems to be an attempt at using capitalisation to emulate the appearance of the logo, but the name itself is Hexen. This is similar to people who use "DooM" when refering to Doom. There's some more relevant information to this on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks). Fragglet 11:59, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Raven Software consistently uses "HeXen on their site and this would seem to fall under the camelcase judgement call. I think "HeXen" was correct. Ace of Sevens 03:15, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

The CamelCase argument refers to when two words are combined into a single one to form a trademark. This isn't the case with Hexen, which is a german word meaning "to practice sorcery". Fragglet 09:32, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't see why the principle wouldn't apply here. The policy seems mainly to oppose all-caps except in the case of acronyms and the like. See eXistenZ for another Wikipedia example of unusual captalizations being accepted. Ace of Sevens 13:08, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Hexenbox.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Hexenbox.jpg

Image:Hexenbox.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 22:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia Section

Hi, I was the IP who removed the trivia section earlier, but the edit was soon reverted. I honestly don't see how any of these trivia facts can fit inside any context within the article. I don't see how the incomplete level is of importance, the Doom contest is irrelevant, and the MOD is just plain cruft, I think. --FireV 20:11, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Original title

This page seems to indicate that the game was originally announced as "Heretic ][", but I guess you'd need a scan of the original PC Gamer article to prove it. --68.44.13.236 18:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I added more details and tactical notes to the characters section

If you think this is bad or want to revert it, please tell me why here and let's discuss it before you do so.--Zaorish 20:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)