Welcome to the Esports Task Force of WikiProject Video games! We are a group dedicated to creating and improving articles related to esports on Wikipedia.
If you have any questions, please ask them on our discussion page, or by contacting participants of the task force.
Goals
This task force exists to create, maintain, and improve articles related to esports.
Scope
Articles on the English Wikipedia related to esports. This subject includes notable professional gamers and their teams, gaming competitions, esports broadcasters or commentators, and games which are played professionally.
Specific criteria for editing esports articles still need to be decided on. However, here are some guidelines in the meantime:
Be sure to always write from a neutral point of view. Be aware of your own biases. For example, it can be easy to write praisingly about your favorite player. Instead, write objectively about the player's notable accomplishments.
Make notability apparent. Avoid trivial facts and instead focus on important achievements. For example, if a player has won an international tournament, their article definitely should mention it.
Search for good sources and interesting facts. The topic of esports is covered very well on the web, so we should take advantage of this.
Titles of articles about professional gamers should be whatever is the individual is most commonly referred to in reliable sources. Typically, but not always, this is the player's gamertag or in-game name as opposed to their legal or birth name.
NPOV : Ensure that pages on professional gamers are written from a neutral point of view, even if they're your favorite gamer!
Stubs : Most articles in the scope of our project are start-class or stub-class; these should be brought up to C-class if possible.
Update : various older team, league, and player pages
Other : Discuss and create criteria for good articles specific to the scope of this task force; add the eSports template to pages within the scope of this task force.
Organizational tasks
Decide whether articles on esports games are within the scope of this task force. (Done)
If it is decided we should, we will also need to decide which games are within the task force's scope; that is, how to define a game as an esports game.
Decide on notability guidelines for professional players sometime in the future. Currently there is some concensus that there should not specifically an WP:SNG guidelines per this discussion
Decide how to tables like rosters and tournament results listings
Decide what types of tournaments are appropriate for listing
Make navboxes look better
Decide which former players to list
Create and maintain archive of esports-related deletion discussions
Maybe standardize date format. current there are two formats being used: 2016-09-06 (Korean dates), Aug 2016 (western)
Anyone who wishes to improve articles related to esports is welcome to join. Feel free to indicate your participation by adding your name to this list, along with any specific areas of interest. You may also want to add our userbox to your userpage.
