Evidence before speed
Editorial Policy
This policy explains how Rift Archive sources, labels, writes, reviews, and corrects League of Legends Classic coverage.
Effective and last updated
Source priority
- Current first-party Riot Games, League of Legends, LoL Esports, or Tencent League pages for the relevant region.
- Official account, support, patch, and developer material when it directly supports the claim.
- Reputable reporting for discovery and clearly labeled context.
- Community posts and datamining only as leads or speculation, never as official confirmation.
Fact-status labels
Stated directly on a current Riot Games, League of Legends, LoL Esports, or Tencent League source.
The main point is official, but an important detail or regional application is still missing.
The reviewed official pages do not currently answer this question.
A community, media, or datamining claim that is not suitable for publication as an official fact.
A status belongs to a specific claim. One official sentence does not automatically confirm a full roster, all item values, a complete queue list, or every regional implementation detail.
Writing and review rules
- Answer the search question before adding background.
- Use absolute dates and name the timezone or regional service.
- Keep official facts, partial facts, unknowns, and speculation visibly separate.
- Do not invent search metrics, dates, game values, builds, qualifications, downloads, or personal experience.
- Do not copy a competitor's wording, imagery, code, table design, or brand treatment.
- Generate visible FAQ answers and structured data from the same reviewed source.
Automation may assist with research organization, drafting, testing, and formatting. Publication still requires direct source review, consistency checks, and an evidence boundary. Tool output is never treated as authority over a first-party source.
Update policy
The homepage shows its last-updated and last-verified dates. Before launch, release timing, access rules, systems, and regional events can change quickly. Material official changes should update the central fact data, visible answer, FAQ, structured data, source log, and verification date together.
Corrections
If a statement is outdated, regionally misapplied, or unsupported, note the page URL, the disputed sentence, and a first-party source that supports the correction. A public correction channel is not yet available during controlled acceptance; a non-sensitive contact method will be added before indexing is enabled. Do not share account credentials, private identifiers, or other sensitive information.
Confirmed corrections should update every affected surface. A correction does not silently convert community reporting into official evidence.
Commercial and editorial independence
The current MVP contains no ads, affiliate links, paid rankings, sponsored placements, or fabricated recommendations. If monetization is added later, it should be disclosed without changing evidence status or editorial conclusions.
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