Streams Wiki:Point of view

This encyclopedia describes livestreaming: platforms, channels, categories, and the public numbers people use to talk about them.

Tracker sites are sources. They are not the page.

How a number is allowed to lead[edit]

Say what changed, in a sentence, before any table.
Absolute growth (viewers or followers added) and relative growth (percent) are different lists. A percent list without a floor is a small-channel lottery. Do not present them as the same chart.
A one-day peak from a final, a funeral stream, a raid, or a front-page slot is an event. It is not the week. Split event spikes from channels that held an audience.
A new category with a huge percent and a tiny base is a launch. Print the viewer count beside the percent, and do not rank it above a real category.
Do not infer revenue, unique viewers, or whether a channel is a healthy business. One raid moves an average. Public trackers are not Twitch's own analytics.
The unit of a channel article is: hours streamed, average viewers, peak viewers, followers gained, followers per hour, and games. A calendar if the source has one.

Twitch, YouTube live, Kick, and the public directories and trackers that describe them.
Categories (Just Chatting, a game, a league broadcast) as things people watch, not as a leaderboard to be copied.
Channel history when a reliable source exists. Living streamers follow ordinary biography rules: allegations stay allegations.

Guessing sub revenue, bits, or a sponsor rate from a viewer count.
Pasting a tracker's homepage tables into an article.
Looksmaxxing culture and pickup method. Those are other encyclopedias. looksmaxxing.wiki is the sister for appearance. A streamer who is also in that scene is linked both ways; the culture is not imported. See Looksmaxxing streamers.

Lead with what the thing is. Then what the number does and does not mean. Name the tracker when the figure comes from one.