Welcome to the Lemmings Wiki on Fandom! The Lemmings Wiki is a collaborative project to create a comprehensive encyclopedia about the Lemmings series of video games. This means you can make changes to the Lemmings Wiki to help improve it. This page details a set of simple rules and guidelines that help ensure that contributions to the Lemmings Wiki can be their best, and that all editors can have a comfortable experience.
Fandom policies
On the Lemmings Wiki, as well as all wikis hosted on Fandom.com, all interactions must comply with Fandom's Terms of Use and other Fandom policies. This includes all edits, posts, and other uses of the website. Anything that violates Fandom's policies will be removed.
Get right into editing
Fandom's policies are the only strict rules that absolutely must be followed at all times. The sections below consist of guidelines that can be a useful reference if you are unsure of how something should be done, but are not strict policy themselves. As long as your interactions on the Lemmings Wiki are constructive, you will be in good standing with the community.
You can make an edit to almost any existing article on the Lemmings Wiki, or create a new article if you believe something is missing. Various subjects are documented on the Lemmings Wiki: Among these are levels, traps, mechanics, and games. If you are not sure how to write a new article about something, existing articles about a similar subject on the wiki can be a helpful guide to demonstrate how you should write about the subject.
What the Lemmings Wiki covers
The Lemmings Wiki is centered around the Lemmings series of video games, originally created by DMA Design and Psygnosis. The Lemmings intellectual property (IP) is currently owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The Lemmings Wiki documents content from across the Lemmings series - this includes the eponymous 1991 game and other video games that use the Lemmings IP, including spin-offs.
The Lemmings Wiki is focused on official games: those whose creation involved Sony Interactive Entertainment or Psygnosis as the Developer, Publisher, and/or Licensor. However, unofficial content is allowed, provided that it is contained in a User blog or a post on the Discussions page.
Interacting with other users
As the Lemmings Wiki is a wiki, it is to be expected that multiple users will make changes to any work that is made public on it. This is all part of the process of improvement - assume other editors have good intentions, even if you disagree with their changes. In the event that you do, use the article's "Talk" page to discuss why you disagree with the change, what you would like to be done instead, and why.
Remember to be civil toward other editors; any post that disparages or insults another user is unhelpful. If you believe a user was wrong in making an edit, you can undo that edit, then send a message on the user's Message Wall to explain what they did wrong, and how they can do better when making edits in the future. Also, it is advised not to revert an entire edit if you only disagree with part of its changes.
Editing advice
It is always a good idea to describe the changes you made in the "Revision summary" - the text input box that appears above the "Save" button when editing an article. When you do this, others can quickly tell what you have done, and understand why you made those changes.
Some types of contributions are deemed unconstructive. Vandalism is any edit that impedes an article's usefulness by adding irrelevant text with no context or removing critical page components. If you see an edit that looks like vandalism, you can help the wiki by reverting it using the "undo" button on the article's revision history page. "Talk" pages are for discussing how to improve an article, not for discussing the article's subject in general - such discussion can also be deemed vandalism.
Is it necessary to follow the guidelines?
If any guideline seems to be preventing you from making an improvement to the Lemmings Wiki, feel free to completely ignore it. The community's comfort with a particular change can be much better at guaging that change's worth than a strict set of rules can be.
Conclusion
You can always refer back to this page if you are not sure of how to handle something. If you have any other questions, you can ask any of the Lemmings Wiki Administrators for help via the Message Wall. Welcome, and enjoy being part of the Lemmings Wiki community!