Liquipedia:Notability Guidelines

Please note that inclusion of pages in mainspace is ultimately up to the discretion of the Liquipedia administrators.

Sadly, not everything can be added to the wiki. We want all our pages to be as up-to-date as possible and to meet our quality standards in general. That is made harder the more pages are created, not to mention additional factors, such as the fact that lower ranked teams tend to not have social media where they announce transfers, and so on.

Now, these are not non-negotiable. This wiki contains coverage of certain teams, players and scenes that do not actually meet our guidelines, yet we allow them because there is an active volunteer(s) that keeps those pages of high-quality. This however does not mean that we will allow you to create a page for your team just because you say you will keep it up to date. On the other hand, if you were to be highly interested in, say, keeping the Spanish national scene up to date, then go ahead! In the cases where this is not the case however, all of this means we have to prioritise: we try to keep our coverage to just the top and the sub-top tier of competitive Stormgate as defined by the guidelines below. Any pages that do not meet these guidelines will not be deleted, but will be moved to your user space.

All prize values mentioned below are to be understood as USD.

If you disagree with the decision for a certain page, please feel free to come chat in our Discord.

Guidelines and Criteria

Please note that if a player/team/talent/admin already has a page on another Liquipedia wiki the notability borders get lowered by 25%.

Players

Players are considered notable if they earned at least 100 notability points.

You can easily check if a player is notable via the Player Notability Checker.

ID/(Page-)Name changes

ID changes require quite a bit of work (adjusting the page, moving it and purging all pages linking to it). Due to that they are only applicable if:

• the person/team is still active
• the new name/id is intended to be used permanently or at least over the span of 12 months
• the new name/id is not just adding a sponsor or team (in the case of persons)

Note that for person pages new ids can be added to the "Alternate IDs" (|ids) field at editor descretion.

Teams

Teams are considered notable if they meet the following criteria:

• Earned at least 500 notability points.
• There is at least one notable player on the team.

You can easily check if a team is notable via the Team Notability Checker.

Academy- and Sub-Teams of notable Teams

Academy- and Sub-Teams of notable Teams may get a subpage (without their own Results/Player Results/Matches subpages) if they meet the following criteria:

• the Academy-/Sub-Team played in at least 5 events in the last 3 years
• the Academy-/Sub-Team has at least two placements with earnings stored in the LiquipediaDataBase (LPDB).

Talents

Talents (Casters, Hosts, Observers, Broadcast Analysts, etc.) are considered notable if they earned at least 125 notability points.

You can easily check if a player is notable via the Talent Notability Checker.

Tournament Admins

Tournament Admins are considered notable if they earned at least 250 notability points.

You can easily check if a player is notable via the Admin Notability Checker.

Tournament Organizers

Tournament Organizers are considered notable if they meet the following criteria:

• Earned at least 50 notability points.
• The combined prize pool of the organizers events exceeds $1500 USD.

You can easily check if a team is notable via the Organizer Notability Checker.

Leagues and Tournaments

Single-player Leagues and tournaments¹ with a cash prize of at least

• $50 USD for tournaments.
• $25 USD for regularly occurring tournaments.

These should be added right away for documentary purposes.

For non-single-player (team, 3v3, ...) tournaments¹ the required cash prizes are doubled compared to the single-player tournament values.

For tournaments that consist of several sub-tournaments each of these sub-tournaments is treated as a single tournament and has to pass the notability criteria. If such a sub-tournament is notable it should get its own page (incl. infobox league). Sub-tournaments that do not fulfil the criteria by themselves should not be added to the wiki. Qualifiers and Show Matches as part of notable events are not affected by this, they can be added at editors discretion, but still on their own page(s).

To create a new tournament page, follow the Tournament Template.

¹Tournaments with mixed team and 1v1 formats are considered a 1v1 tournament, if at least 1/3 of the played matches are in the 1v1 part of the tournament.

Liquipedia Tiers and TierTypes

To determine what |liquipediatier= and |liquipediatiertype= are to be used on the tournaments please refer to the Liquipedia tier and tierType definitions.

The |publisherpremier=1 should only be set on events organized by the publisher themselves or in the overspanning World championship series (whatever it is named at the time).

Maps

We try to accumulate as much information about maps as possible as long as they were used in a tier 1 or tier 2 tournament or being part of the ladder map pool. (Exceptions can be made for maps used in events tracked with map data in the LiquipediaDB or at administrator discretion.)

To create a new map page, follow the Map Template.

Mapmakers

To be defined.

User pages

Completely optional, but make your userpage a good indication of who you are!

See also

• Liquipedia general policies
• Flag and Country Policy