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* <span style="color:darkred">AVOID:</span> Online exclusive Fox; Fox (online exclusive)<br/><br/> |
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--><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 (™) and registered trademark (®) symbols. If a bear does require special characters in its page name, please also set up a secondary redirect by making a new page without the special characters and placing <syntaxhighlight inline>#REDIRECT [[Bear's page name with normal special characters]]</syntaxhighlight> in the body text.</div> |
--><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 (™) and registered trademark (®) symbols. If a bear does require special characters in its page name, please also set up a secondary redirect by making a new page without the special characters and placing <syntaxhighlight lang="text" inline>#REDIRECT [[Bear's page name with normal special characters]]</syntaxhighlight> in the body text.</div> |
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* <span style="color:darkgreen">USE:</span> Pawlette; Build-A-Bear Buddies Boo-rific Ghost; Día de los Muertos Bear |
* <span style="color:darkgreen">USE:</span> Pawlette; Build-A-Bear Buddies Boo-rific Ghost; Día de los Muertos Bear |
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* <span style="color:darkred">AVOID:</span> Pawlette™; Build-A-Bear Buddies™ Boo-rific Ghost; Dia de los Muertos Bear |
* <span style="color:darkred">AVOID:</span> Pawlette™; Build-A-Bear Buddies™ Boo-rific Ghost; Dia de los Muertos Bear |
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--><div style="text-align:justify">When listing countries a furry friend was available in, use two-letter abbreviations. A list of relevant abbreviations can be found below.</div> |
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--><div style="text-align:justify">For consistency, The Build-A-Bear Wiki has a standard order for countries, which is listed below. Roughly, this order represents non-franchise countries, followed by countries grouped into regions: Australasia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin/South America, Africa, and Asia (including Russia); within these regions, countries with active Workshop locations are placed earlier in the list. Countries (and the prices for each country) should be listed in this |
--><div style="text-align:justify">For consistency, The Build-A-Bear Wiki has a standard order for countries, which is listed below. Roughly, this order represents non-franchise countries, followed by countries grouped into regions: Australasia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin/South America, Africa, and Asia (including Russia); within these regions, countries with active Workshop locations are placed earlier in the list. Countries (and the prices for each country) should be listed in this order.</div> |
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* US, CA, UK, IE, PR, AU, NZ, IT, FR, DE, NL, BE, DK, SE, NO, AE, KW, QA, BH, OM, TR, CL, MX, BR, ZA, CH, HK, JP, KR, TW, TH, SG, IN, RU |
* US, CA, UK, IE, PR, AU, NZ, IT, FR, DE, NL, BE, DK, SE, NO, AE, KW, QA, BH, OM, TR, CL, MX, BR, ZA, CH, HK, JP, KR, TW, TH, SG, IN, RU |
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<h4 style="font-size:120%">[[File:Icon-pawbullet-green.gif|20px|text-bottom]] Citations</h4> |
<h4 style="font-size:120%">[[File:Icon-pawbullet-green.gif|20px|text-bottom]] Citations</h4> |
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<div style="text-align:justify">For images, we request sourcing information to be present in the description of the image rather than on a page featuring the image - this allows the source information to be accessed easily from any page the image is used on. Official product photos and graphics from Build-A-Bear do not need to be cited (though we would sure appreciate it if you could provide a source!), but all other images, such as photos pulled from Worthpoint, Ebay, or Facebook, should be sourced appropriately.<br><br><!-- |
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* <span style="color:darkgreen">GOOD:</span> Source: [https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/build-bear-jumbo-huge-28-plush-tags-4659217661 Build A Bear Jumbo Huge 28" Plush w/Tags Buddy Big Bear Cream {{!}} #4659217661] |
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* <span style="color:peru">OKAY:</span> Source: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/build-bear-jumbo-huge-28-plush-tags-4659217661 |
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* <span style="color:darkred">AVOID:</span> Credit to original owner; Found on Facebook; Pic from Ebay<br><br> |
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* <span style="color:darkgreen">Examples of good personal photo citations:</span> Photo courtesy of u/bearchivist on Reddit, edits by u/bearchivisthelper on Reddit; Photo by Sharon Price-John, edited by [[User:Bearchivist]]; Photo source: [[User:Bearchivist]], photo edits: [[User:Bearchivisthelper]] and [[User:Bearchivisthelper2]] |
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⚫ | * To avoid clutter, particularly in the infobox, The Build-A-Bear Wiki prefers to cite product pages just once, after the product description pulled from the page in question, and have it be implicitly understood that other information such as countries and price come from the appropriate pages. For product pages that have no descriptions, it's preferred to add the citation after the country's abbreviation in the Countries section of the infobox. Example: ZA<sup>[1]</sup> |
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⚫ | <div style="text-align:justify">To balance effort, legibility, and informativity, the preferred style for link citations is to use the page title as the text of the link, and after the link to use optional details to flesh the citation out. The page title can be viewed and copied manually by hovering your cursor over the correct tab in your browser, or it can be quickly copied by saving the page to your bookmarks, CTRL+C (or Apple+C) copying the title, and then unsaving the bookmark.<br><br> |
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⚫ | * If a piece of information comes from an object you own, whether that's a bear, a birth certificate, a brochure, etc, please upload a relevant photo of that object to the Wiki (using [[Special:Upload]] or the red link shortcut) and either cite the image(s) on the bear's page as evidence or include the images in the bear's gallery, which serves the same purpose of evidencing the information. |
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* Example: [https://web.archive.org/web/20231227195245/https://buildabear.com.au/products/peanut-butter-brown-cow Peanut Butter Brown Cow - Build-A-Bear Workshop Australia] (2023)<br><br> |
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For citations from sites like the [https://babbirthcert.buildabear.com/ BAB Digital Birth Cert], include the date you accessed the site, in case it updates after you accessed it and the information you retrieved is either lost or altered. |
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* Example: [https://digitalbirthcert.azurewebsites.net/# BABW Digital Birth Cert] (Accessed 29 Dec 2023)<br><br> |
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* Example: [https://www.reddit.com/r/buildabear/comments/13w53cf/new_bear_available_31st_may_2023/ New bear available - 31st May 2023 : r/buildabear]</div> |
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Revision as of 12:31, 5 April 2024
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General
Capitalization
- USE: Furry friends released in 2024; Doctor Who collection
- AVOID: Furry Friends Released In 2024; Doctor Who Collection
- USE: Skoosherz; Scentiments; Smallfrys
- AVOID: SKOOSHERZ™; SCENTiments; smallfrys
Dates
- USE: October 27, 1997
- USE WITH CAUTION: Dec 2, 2023; Feb 09 2004; November 17 '99; 12 February 2023; 8 Mar 1999; 30 Dec 08
- AVOID: 2/2/2008; 2003/4/12; 06/30/1997
Edit summaries
Furry friend pages
Page name
- USE: Toadally Tie-Dye Frog
- AVOID: TOADally Tie-Dye Frog
- USE: Woodland Friends Fox; Fox (2019)
- AVOID: Online exclusive Fox; Fox (online exclusive)
#REDIRECT [[Bear's page name with normal special characters]]
in the body text.- USE: Pawlette; Build-A-Bear Buddies Boo-rific Ghost; Día de los Muertos Bear
- AVOID: Pawlette™; Build-A-Bear Buddies™ Boo-rific Ghost; Dia de los Muertos Bear
Infobox
- USE: October 27, 1997 (US); March 2005; December 26, 2023 (Online AU)
- AVOID: Oct 27, 1997; 03/05; 26 December 2023
- AE = United Arab Emirates
- AU = Australia
- BE = Belgium
- BH = Bahrain
- BR = Brazil
- CA = Canada
- CH = China
- CL = Chile
- DE = Germany
- DK = Denmark
- FR = France
- HK = Hong Kong
- IE = Ireland
- IN = India
- IT = Italy
- JP = Japan
- KR = South Korea
- KW = Kuwait
- MX = Mexico
- NL = Netherlands
- NO = Norway
- NZ = New Zealand
- OM = Oman
- PR = Puerto Rico
- QA = Qatar
- RU = Russia
- SE = Sweden
- SG = Singapore
- TH = Thailand
- TR = Turkey
- TW = Taiwan
- US = USA
- UK = United Kingdom
- ZA = South Africa
- US, CA, UK, IE, PR, AU, NZ, IT, FR, DE, NL, BE, DK, SE, NO, AE, KW, QA, BH, OM, TR, CL, MX, BR, ZA, CH, HK, JP, KR, TW, TH, SG, IN, RU
Gallery sorting
- Bundles: Simpler bundles (i.e. those with fewer items) first, followed by more complex bundles (i.e. those with more items)
- Gallery: Official product photos first (primary photo first, then alt photos), then community sourced photos, screenshots of product pages and digital collector's guides, scans or photos of catalogues and print collector's guides, and finally scans or screenshots of birth certificates
Collection pages
Page name
- USE: Furry friends released in 2024; PAW Patrol collection
- AVOID: Furry Friends Released In 2024; Paw Patrol Collection
- USE: Sanrio Hello Kitty & Friends collection; Sheep and goats
- AVOID: Sanrio Hello Kitty & Friends® collection; Sheep & goats
{{Bearlist}} vs {{Bigbearlist}}
Gallery sorting
Images
Filenames
Name main product images to match the bear's page title, with abbreviations or release year if necessary.
- Example: 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 additional product images the same name as the main product image, but with either numbers or -alt appended on the end before the extension (jpg, gif, png).
- Example: Brown Cow's main product image is BrownCow.jpg, so its additional image is called BrownCow-Alt.jpg, but could equally be BrownCow2.jpg or BrownCow-2.jpg.
Give bundle images the same name as the main product image, but with -bundle or -bundle and numbers appended on the end before the extension.
- Example: Rainbow Party Bear's main product image is RainbowPartyBear23.jpg, so its bundle images are called RainbowPartyBear23-bundle.jpg and RainbowPartyBear23-bundle2.jpg.
Citations
Ideally, citations in the form of links would be given in our standard referencing format (see below #Citations & references), but simply pasting the link is acceptable in a pinch.
- GOOD: Source: Build A Bear Jumbo Huge 28" Plush w/Tags Buddy Big Bear Cream | #4659217661
- OKAY: Source: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/build-bear-jumbo-huge-28-plush-tags-4659217661
- AVOID: Credit to original owner; Found on Facebook; Pic from Ebay
- Examples of good personal photo citations: Photo courtesy of u/bearchivist on Reddit, edits by u/bearchivisthelper on Reddit; Photo by Sharon Price-John, edited by User:Bearchivist; Photo source: User:Bearchivist, photo edits: User:Bearchivisthelper and User:Bearchivisthelper2
Citations & references
General
- If a piece of information comes from an object you own, whether that's a bear, a birth certificate, a brochure, etc, please upload a relevant photo of that object to the Wiki (using Special:Upload or the red link shortcut) and either cite the image(s) on the bear's page as evidence or include the images in the bear's gallery, which serves the same purpose of evidencing the information.
Link styling
For pages preserved on Wayback Machine, include the year the capture was taken in parentheses after the link (and after the country abbreviation, if present).
- Example: Peanut Butter Brown Cow - Build-A-Bear Workshop Australia (2023)
For product pages where the country name isn't in the page title, include the country abbreviation in parentheses after the link and before the year the capture was taken.
- Example: Ted Lasso Bear Sunglasses Bundle | Shop at Build-A-Bear® (US) (2023)
For citations from sites like the BAB Digital Birth Cert, include the date you accessed the site, in case it updates after you accessed it and the information you retrieved is either lost or altered.
- Example: BABW Digital Birth Cert (Accessed 29 Dec 2023)
For citations from Reddit, the default page title does not always attach the classic "r/" identifier to the subreddit name; The Build-A-Bear Wiki prefers to add the r/ identifier in where absent to improve legibility.