Rocket League Esports Wiki:Community/How to Edit/Procedures

Roster Changes
These are the steps that you should take to fully update our wiki in the case of a roster change.
 * 1) Front Page:
 * 2) * Make a news item announcing the roster change. -- Explanation
 * 3) Player Page:
 * 4) * Update the player's infobox team history, including the appropriate date (just month and year).
 * 5) * Update the player's infobox current team.
 * 6) * Update the introductory sentence at the top of the page.
 * 7) * Update the player's bio. Include relevant information related to the roster change (for example, if player A is added to the roster of team X because player B was dropped from the starting lineup, you would mention player B in player A's bio).
 * 8) * Update the player's social media links if applicable.
 * 9) * Update the player's stream link if applicable.
 * 10) * Update the player's list of alternate IDs if applicable.
 * 11) Team Page:
 * 12) * Update the roster, either adding a player to the starting roster, changing the information, or moving the player to the list of former players.
 * 13) * Update the timeline section, including a reference.
 * 14) * Update the team history section, including relevant details and a reference.
 * 15) Update the navigation box of the relevant team, either adding or removing the player -- Explanation.
 * 16) Former Team Page:
 * 17) * Update the timeline section, including a reference.
 * 18) Former Team Page & Navbox:
 * 19) * If the player switched teams, remember to update the former team page also.
 * 20) If it's preseason or midseason, update the roster swap portal.

Tournament Results
These are the steps that you should take to fully update our wiki when tournament games or series finish. For Premier and many Major events, all of this will be done by our staff, but community members are welcome to help out, especially if we are late updating something.
 * 1) Front Page:
 * 2) * If the tournament is over, update the news. - Explanation
 * 3) * If a bracket or list of standings needs to be updated on the featured tournaments slider, do so.
 * 4) Tournament Page:
 * 5) * Enter the result in the bracket or similar section of the tournament page.
 * 6) * Enter the picks and bans of the game, if we are including those for the tournament (if not, and you would like us to, please contact us!
 * 7) * Enter the postgame scoreboard, if we are including those for the tournament (again you may contact us if you want us to and we are not).
 * 8) * Update the list of VODs once available, in two places: on the tournament information page, and also on the VODs-specific page, where applicable.
 * 9) Team Page:
 * 10) * If applicable, update the Achievements section of the relevant team pages.
 * 11) Player Page:
 * 12) * Update the Achievements section of the relevant player pages (if they placed top 4).
 * 13) * If the tournament was relatively major in the player's career thus far, write a line about it in their biography.
 * 14) Overview:
 * 15) * Check to see if the tournament has an overview page, and if so, update it.
 * 16) Portal:
 * 17) * Update the appropriate page in the Tournament Portal.

Tournament Page Creation

 * 1) Tournament Page:
 * 2) * Create it using the tournament page prefill.
 * 3) Templates:
 * 4) * If applicable, add an icon to LeagueIconSmall.
 * 5) * Secondary Pages:
 * 6) * Check to see if the tournament has a overview page. If so, add the tournament to it.
 * 7) * Check to see if there are any applicable time-sensitive redirects. If so, update them.

Team Formation
These are the steps you should take to fully update our wiki when a new team is created (or when you are creating a page for a team that we did not yet have a page for).
 * 1) Check to see if the team meets our notability guidelines.
 * 2) Team page:
 * 3) * If it does, create the page for the team using the team template.
 * 4) * Create all relevant redirects (e.g. KOU to Kings of Urban)
 * 5) * Make a roster navbox for the team -- Explanation.
 * 6) Relevant Templates:
 * 7) * Add the team name/names to the teamnames template: Teamnames -- Explanation.
 * 8) * Add a 60-pixel-wide, 25-pixel-tall, transparent-background at  -- Explanation.
 * 9) * Add the team logo to the teamimage template: TeamImage (following the guidelines) -- Explanation.
 * 10) Other:
 * 11) * Update the appropriate page in the teams portal.
 * 12) * Follow the guidelines in the roster changes section for updating player pages reflecting their joining the team.
 * 13) * If the team was just formed, created a front-page news item about the formation.

Team Disbanding
These are the steps you should take to fully update our wiki when a team is disbanded.
 * 1) Add the appropriate ambox to the top of the team's page.
 * 2) Move the team to the disbanded teams section of the appropriate page in the teams portal.
 * 3) Update the text in the team's history, and follow the guidelines in the roster changes section for updating player pages reflecting their leaving the team.
 * 4) Update the front-page news.

Player Namechanges

 * 1) Team Page:
 * 2) * Change the player's name in the team's starting roster & navbox
 * 3) * Write in the team's timeline that the player namechanged (this is new as of 2016)
 * 4) Player Page:
 * 5) * Move the player's page to the new URL. Leave behind a redirect.
 * 6) * Update the infobox to state the player's new ingame name.
 * 7) * Add the player's old IGN to the list of alternate IDs.
 * 8) * Write a line in the biography about the switch.
 * 9) * Change the introduction and the first line of the biography if it doesn't use StandardBioSentence, where the player's name is in quotes in the middle of their IRL name. Do not change the name anywhere else in the biography.
 * 10) Player Subpages:
 * 11) * If the player has a match history page or stats pages, move that and update the tabs at the top. Same for a match history page.
 * 12) * Change the argument of the match history and career stats pages to be the new name.
 * 13) * Create /Statistics and redirect it to the appropriate location
 * 14) Concept:
 * 15) * If the player has a mh or stats page, they also have a concept. Go to  and move that to   LEAVING BEHIND A REDIRECT.
 * 16) * Add the new name as an additional argument of PlayerGamesConcept.
 * 17) Double Redirects:
 * 18) * Check Special:DoubleRedirects and fix any problems.

Adding A New Set of Scoreboards
This is how to set up scoreboards for a tournament that doesn't have scoreboards yet.
 * 1) Determine the tournament's scoreboard name. This will be of the form   . For example, RLCS S1 Finals or RLCS S1 NA Q1 Group Stage.
 * 2) Create Concept: . Remember to add it to Category:Tournament Scoreboard Concepts!
 * 3) Create a redirect from to the tournament's overview page.
 * 4) Add to the appropriate template in the metadata templates category and define its variables appropriately.
 * 5) Create the match history and player stats pages once one scoreboard has been created.