The Build-A-Bear Wiki:Style guide: Difference between revisions

--><div style="text-align:justify">Where trademarks are given in nonstandard capitalization, generally speaking, these should be '''converted to title case'''. The exception to this is when they are consistently and reliably referred to using the nonstandard capitalization (the useful examples from Wikipedia gives are thatinclude: KISS should be converted to Kiss, but iPod should stay as iPod) - however, this is not usually the case for Build-A-Bear products.</div>

--><div style="text-align:justify">Avoid using qualities that might change over time to name furry friends' pages - this is kinder to future bearchivists who might have to change a page name and edit all the pages that link to it if thethat quality changes later.</div>

* <span style="color:darkgreen">USE:</span> Woodland Friends Fox; FoxKeepsake Teddy (20192023)

* <span style="color:darkred">AVOID:</span> Online exclusive Fox; FoxKeepsake Teddy (onlineUK exclusive)<br/><br/>

--><div style="text-align:justify">You can use special characters in page names when they are part of the bear's official product name, but avoid using trademark (&trade;) and registered trademark (&reg;) symbols. If a bear does require special characters in its page name, please also set up a secondary redirect by making a new page withwithout the special characters and placing <nowikisyntaxhighlight lang="text" inline>#REDIRECT [[Bear's page name with normal special characters]]</nowikisyntaxhighlight> in the body text.</div>

* <span style="color:darkgreen">USE:</span> Pawlette; Build-A-Bear Buddies Boo-rific Ghost; Día de los Muertos Bear

* <span style="color:darkred">AVOID:</span> Pawlette™; Build-A-Bear Buddies™ Boo-rific Ghost; Dia de los Muertos Bear

<div style="text-align:justify">Galleries in furry friends' pages don't ''need'' to be arranged in a particular order. The Build-A-Bear Wiki has some order suggestions, though!</div>

<div style="text-align:justify">At the moment there is no specific guidelinerule for when to use [[Template:Bearlist]] and when to use [[Template:Bigbearlist]]; however, the general wisdomguidance is that Bearlist's smaller images better suit lists with large numbers of bears, as the smaller images allow the reader to do less scrolling, whereas Bigbearlist can be used for lists with fewer bears, since the size of image less impacts the browsing experience when there are fewer bears to scroll through. A list of furry friends released in a given year, for example, would always use <nowiki>{{Bearlist}}</nowiki>, but a collection with only four bears would be suitable for <nowiki>{{Bigbearlist}}</nowiki>.</div>

<div style="text-align:justify">Image filename consistency is not remotely as high a priority as actually preserving information hereon The Build-A-Bear Wiki, but if you want to aim for consistency, The Build-A-Bear Wiki recommends the following is recommended:</div><br>

*Name Main'''main product images are named''' to match the bear's page title, with abbreviations or release year if necessary. Examples: [[How to Train Your Dragon Toothless (2014)]]'s main image is titled HowToTrainYourDragonToothless(2014).jpg, but it could also be HTTYDToothless.jpg, Toothless14.jpg, or some other reasonable permutation.

*Give Bundle'''additional product images are given''' the same name as the main product image, but with -bundleeither numbers or -bundle and numbersalt appended on the end before the extension. Example: [[Rainbow Party Bear]]'s main product image is RainbowPartyBear23.(jpg, sogif, its bundle images are called RainbowPartyBear23-bundlepng).jpg and RainbowPartyBear23-bundle2.jpg.