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Backyard Monsters Wiki

Before you start

Please log in. You can use your Facebook account to do this and, considering you're a Backyard Monsters player, you most likely have one of these! When logged in, you can edit your Wikia-wide user preferences, have your own avatar, user page and are easier to find when you have made an edit.

Also remember that behind a Wikia is a community. You don't have to like what other people do, but respect them well enough to not engage them violently. This wiki is here to support people when playing the game and share knowledge. Do not start any flame wars!

Contributing to the wiki

Wikias, just like Wikipedia and projects alike, cannot thrive without active people, willing to make the best of the wiki. Because of this, you are invited to participate in making the best we can of Backyard Monsters Wiki. Just do yourself and the rest of the community the favor of reading the following paragraphs. They're simple, useful and may save you from unnecessary conflicts.

Wikia markup isn't that hard once you've gotten the hang of it and is easy to learn. Wikia made a lot of documentation for both beginners and more experienced users, which can be found at the Tutorial page on Wikia Community Central. Please read the beginner's guide before you start!

Guidelines

  • Make sure you know what you're doing. If not, read the Beginner's Tutorial mentioned in the previous paragraph.
  • Hit the preview button before you publish your post. It's ok to forget something and edit that after your first edit, but don't make multiple edits on the same page within a couple of minutes.
  • There is an edit box which says 'Add a summary of your edit', it's preferred you leave a (small) note about your edit there.
  • Every user has the power to undo the last edit made to a page. Only do this when a page has been violated.
  • Use the search bar to see if the page exists in the wiki, and if it does, please do not make a duplicate page.
  • It's recommended you use English, so people can understand you.

Templates

The use of templates is free and, in some cases, encouraged. Before you use a template, make sure you know how to use it. Each template page includes documentation to help you further.

Find instructions and BYM wiki-specific templates at Backyard_Monsters_Wiki:Templates.

Blogs

Blogs are shown on the main page. They can also be found under the Community tab on the navigation bar on top.

Strategies and Tips

These sections are focused more on user input than facts and are therefore separated from the regular pages. This gives more freedom to post tips, tricks and complete strategies and walkthroughs. Still, the general rules and guidelines mentioned above apply to these pages as well.

Instructions on how to add and edit to these sections can be found on the Strategies page.

User Pages

Every user has his own user page. You are free to edit your own user page and create subpages to this user page. You are not allowed to use offensive language, images etc. on your page or anyone else's.

Do not edit someone else's user page, unless it is to fix broken markup and undoing vandalism. This does not apply when the user has given you permission to do so.

In case of conflict

Keep a hold of yourself; conflicts don't stop when you respond negatively to the person who started a conflict. On Wikia Community Central, there is a nice post about this, which explains it so nicely that I don't have to do it anymore: Don't feed the trolls.

Beside not feeding the trolls, there is also the option of alerting an admin via his or her message wall. Do this in a polite way (we don't want to hear that some *** called you a *** and now you want to <insert something bad here>) and we will try to sort out the situation.

Notes

  • Some code snippets for tables are moved to User:MHLut/snippets, these can be copied through the source edit window and placed into the pages that need them.
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