Help:List of Untergangers

The List of Untergangers has become more than just a list of names. It has become a reference sheet to look up who is living close enough for a potential meet-up, who is most active, etc. The growing functionalities, as well as the growing number of entries itself has put strain on the system designed to process and display it, evolving from a raw table to template entries and lastly a custom data format, while striving to remain readable and editable by anyone.

This page will help guide you get around the list in its new data format.

The data format
The page containing the data format is located at List of Untergangers/data. In there, you'd see something similar to the following:

§FegeleintheLostTapes ‖NA ‖US‖ 24‖   9433292‖  42207‖B-‖d‖UCIiyXKu6nw0XBIRP1GsrTvw §KakashiBallZ        ‖NA ‖US‖ 202‖   7605850‖   7032‖C+‖r‖UCpmkEyF1qm8zfJ1RZf8VtOg §RBC56               ‖NA ‖US‖ 104‖   5809834‖   8339‖C+‖a‖UCo5ovp1EhIV64jSi1p6wZ3Q §FegelDolfParodies   ‖ME ‖KW‖  64‖ 5,006,936‖ 26,693‖B-‖r‖UCFxQtvpHInGR_hv-CeTmTWg §TheSilverUniverse   ‖EU ‖EE‖ 240‖   4922156‖  11170‖C+‖a‖UCaNOU80rVGZdQn23aA6k8dQ §Delphox             ‖NA ‖CA‖ 110‖   4296053‖  14298‖B-‖a‖UCUAZqrmzSnpAuryg8ymjMhQ‖formerly AlphaSkyRaider, Charizard, and HRP4Life

Symbols
The weird symbols are explained as follows:
 *   is the record separator. In between two of these symbols is a record for a single Unterganger.
 *   is the field separator. Within a record it divides the string into parts (fields), each of the parts convey different information about the Unterganger.

Fields
Which field holds which information is given below, in order, from left to right: To make sure all fields are counted, you should count the fields carefully, not to skip any, or closely follow the alignment of existing records. If the information for the fields are not available, leave it blank (do follow the alignment of existing records by adding spaces).
 * 1) Name of the unterganger. This can be formatted to link to the Unterganger's page.
 * 2) Region i.e. the region of the world the Unterganger resides in.
 * 3) Country i.e. the country of residence.
 * 4) Video count i.e. how many videos the Unterganger has uploaded.
 * 5) View count i.e. The total number of views for the Downfall parodies the Unterganger has published.
 * 6) *This information can be obtained from a channel's channel page.
 * 7) Subscriber count.
 * 8) *This information can be obtained from a channel's channel page.
 * 9) SocialBlade grade. The grade given by SocialBlade to the Unterganger's channel.
 * 10) Status. The Unterganging Status, but most of which are compacted into a one to two letter codes, for brevity. (more info coming)
 * 11) Channel ID or username.
 * 12) *If the majority of the channel's uploads are not Downfall parodies, and the channel has a playlist for them, leave this field blank and define a named field "pl" instead. See below.
 * 13) (optional) Notes, to be appended to the name part. This is usually used to remark the Unterganger's previous known names.

Beside these unnamed fields, where its position determines the information it holds, there are also named fields, with the format. They can theoretically be placed in any field position, without affecting the counting of the unnamed fields above (though in practice they're placed after all unnamed fields). The following describe their key names and the values they hold: Please note that field names are case-sensitive.
 * pl - the playlist containing Downfall parodies. This field is defined when the majority of the channel's uploads are not Downfall parodies, and the channel has a playlist for them.
 * noajax - tells the updater script to skip this particular record, for reasons that will be discussed in this section.

Rules
Several rules dictate the information that is placed in the records. This must be observed.
 * 1) The notability rule (Wiki Content Rule #9) applies for new entries.
 * 2) If the majority of the channel's uploads are not Downfall parodies, and the channel has a playlist for them, the field for "channel" must be left blank, and the "pl" field must be defined.
 * 3) If no playlist exists for the above case, the entry is not eligible for automatic stats update. A "noajax" field must be set to "no". Subsequently the stats is to be updated manually.
 * 4) If manual inspection of a channel in the list reveals no Downfall parody is deemed present (after several pages of the videos page browsed), the entry shall be removed.