Editing Guidelines

To reduce edit wars and other frustrations, please read the following guidelines before making any edits.
Note: This is a wiki that uses American English. Do not add a different language onto pages. If you would like to read a page in a different language, use a translator.
* Please write correctly-spelled grammatical full sentences. Watch out for those homonyms and subject-verb agreement issues!
** If (or rather, when) Onett misspells something in-game, silently correct it in the main section of the page, and list the actual spelling used in Notes/Trivia. Alternatively, if you're quoting in-game text verbatim (for example, in a quest dialogue), you can mark errors in the quoted text with "[sic]."
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* Bears are "he" (unless specified otherwise*), and mobs are mostly "it," except the Werewolf and King Beetle can both be "he." Bees are "they" or "it."
** Mother Bear and Spirit Bear are female. All of the other bears are male.
** Bees are technically female, but Onett goes out of his way to not use pronouns for them. Since that's not workable on a wiki, use "they" if possible, "it" otherwise.
** Regardless of their gender, bears and bees have names, and mobs have labels. Use "the" with labels, but not with names. He's "Black Bear," not "The Black Bear." This also means that bears and bees are "who," not "that."
* Use actual headings, not paragraphs formatted in bold.
** See that box that says "Paragraph" with a down arrow? Click it and select the appropriate heading level.
** Similarly, use actual lists, not workarounds with asterisks or dashes.
* Please stick to a consistent voice. Don't use "you" in one sentence and "the player" in the next.
** Yes, Wikipedia's guidelines say to not use "you" at all, but this isn't Wikipedia. Readability is more important than formality.
* The wiki should reflect the current state of the game. This means don't post rumors/future content, even if they come from Onett himself. (What he wants to deliver and what he actually delivers are often quite different.)
** This also means not writing things like "since the [insert date here] update..." Just write what's in the game currently, as if it had always been that way. If the old value/setting/behavior may be of interest to players, you can add it in a Notes/Trivia section.
** Debug and/or Developer gear will not be considered as part of the current state of the game due to the only sources of the gear being either a developer or a hacker.
* At this point, unless there's been an update, you shouldn't be adding new pages. If you can't find a page, assume the fault lies with you unless and until proven otherwise.
**If you find a page that shouldn't exist – for example, it has fake information, doesn't have to do with the game, or it's a duplicate – inform a staff member, or edit the page and put the special code<nowiki>{{Delete}}</nowiki>at the top.
* Do not add the Removed Content template to content that is still in the game. Just because you can no longer obtain something does not mean it is removed content. For example, a first-edition Tabby Bee is not removed content. Only add the Removed Content template to the items that were actually removed (e.g. the Bear Bee Pack).
** Traveling Bears who have left *do* get the Removed Content template, even if they promised to be back.
* Don't add pointless trivia. Include trivia that is actually noteworthy and not clearly obvious to anyone with a brain in their head.
** Hint: if an item is the most expensive thing in the game, then it follows that it is the most expensive item in its shop. If you add the latter as a separate trivia point, be prepared to be ridiculed.
* Opinion statements have no business in articles. If you want to write about your opinion, make a blog post instead.
** Hint: value statements, such as "This is a good thing," are opinions. Suggestions count as opinions as well.
* When writing dates, write out the month name and include the year. For example, both November 24, 2018 and 18 May 2018 are acceptable, though the former is preferred. If space is tight, use ISO date format: 2018-08-11.
* Do not use external link syntax for internal links. In other words, do not put https://bee-swarm-simulator.wikia.com into links. If you see the external link image  on your link while in edit mode, but not on the published page, you're doing it wrong. (The "refresh the page" links on the Codes page are the exception to this.)
* The first occurrence of the page's subject should be bold. All subsequent occurrences should be normal text.
* Similarly, any given page should only be linked to once. Don't make every occurrence of the word "Honey" a link to that page!
** There can be some exceptions to this: if people are likely to read only a small subsection of the page, then repeating useful links in each subsection might be a good idea. (This still means "Honey" should not be linked more than once; it's rarely useful.)
* Use normal capitalization. They may be important terms in the game, but "honey," "pollen," "spider," "mob," "ticket," etc. are not proper nouns. They should only be capitalized if they're the first word of a sentence.
** "Brown Bear," "Lion Bee," etc. are names. Names are capitalized.
* Tables, infoboxes, etc. should be used in addition to normal text, not instead of normal text. This is partly for accessibility reasons, but it's mostly for clarity; things like infoboxes are designed specifically to be concise, so they do not have room for explanations.
* If you find yourself making the same edit a second time, check the page history. There's probably a good reason why your original edit was reverted.
* Do not edit the same page multiple times in a row. There are previews to allow you to see the results of your edits. If you can't get it right in two edits, STOP EDITING and ask for help.
** Editing the same page multiple times in succession can result in an assumption that you are edit-farming, so don't do this.
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