Editorial standards
Every rule, measurement and ranking on RacketWiki links to a source. Sources are ranked in five tiers, and a higher tier wins when two sources disagree.
The five tiers
- Tier 1: governing bodies and official rulebooks.
- Tier 2: national bodies, tours and tournament organisers.
- Tier 3: manufacturers and recognised equipment test labs.
- Tier 4: statistics and records bodies.
- Tier 5: reputable press and community sources.
Our rules
- Rules, court dimensions and equipment limits cite a Tier 1 source.
- Rankings are always dated and cite the body that publishes them.
- Encyclopaedias, including Wikipedia, can point us to a primary source but are never the citation.
- Each fact shows the date it was last checked. Facts we have not yet verified are marked as such and never presented as fact.
- Measurements are stored in metric and converted to imperial automatically, so the two never disagree.
Corrections
Every page has a "Spotted a mistake" link. Reports go to an editor, who checks them against the source before anything changes.
Sponsorship and the directory
Sponsored placements and sponsored directory listings are labelled "Sponsored" and their links are marked as sponsored. Directory order never depends on payment.
Importance
Sports, competitions, governing bodies and brands carry an importance rating from one to five rackets. It is an editorial judgement of how significant each one is across racket sports, not a sourced fact, and our editors review it. We use it to order lists, so the sports most people play come first; it never affects what we publish about a sport.