Editorial policy
Editorial policy
The rules the desk writes by, published so a reader can hold the desk to them.
Every guide on this notebook is built on the public record: published archaeology, agency site pages, museum labels and the living testimony of descendant communities. Claims are written at the level a careful reader can verify, dates are given as ranges with their debates attached, and numbers are never invented to fill a hole. Where the evidence runs out, the page says so, because silence is cheaper than fiction.
The boundaries
We do not publish invented experiences, invented quotations or invented sources. We do not name guides, outfitters or services as recommendations, since we test none of them. We do not grade the beliefs of Native nations, and where interpretation of a site or panel belongs to a descendant community, that authority is stated rather than argued with. The migrations guide shows the method applied to the most sensitive subject in the region.
Reviews and corrections
Pages are reviewed against their sources before publication and revisited when the record moves. A correction changes the page and, where the error mattered, says it changed. Readers are the widest review network a small desk has: write through the contact page, and a correction gets priority over everything else in the queue.
Money and independence
No payment changes a guide's advice, and placements, if any, follow the rules on the sponsored content page. The desk's only stake in the region is the ordinary one: the sites should still be standing, which is why the visit checklist and the laws guide are treated as the notebook's load bearing walls. The privacy policy completes the picture of how the desk operates.