Editorial standards and policy
Our standard is useful enough to act on, careful enough not to overpromise and open enough to check.
Selection
Every page must solve a distinct problem
We cover denial notices, decision records, safer alternatives and appeals. A new page must answer a real next-step question. It must add a useful method, tool or comparison - Not swap one keyword into reused text.
Research and attribution
Important claims need inspectable sources
We check consequential claims against primary sources. These can include regulators, agencies, statutes and official program materials. A secondary article may help us find an issue, but it does not replace the controlling source.
Guide pages list their sources and review date. Our methodology explains how tools turn a reason into a bounded next step.
Writing and review
Plain language comes before search phrases
Pages state their scope, avoid guarantees and separate fact from judgment. Headings should answer the reader's real questions. Lists, tables and examples are used only when they make a hard choice easier to understand.
Automation can help organize a draft, but it cannot approve one. A person must check the facts, scope, title, metadata, sources, links and image text before publication. The importer binds that approval to a cryptographic hash of the exact article; an edit invalidates the approval and stops publication.
Imported work must belong here
Docs Library items must stay within the site's denial-and-appeal purpose, cite an inspectable primary source, add a contextual link to a relevant pathway and pass checks for thin, duplicated, keyword-heavy or link-heavy copy. We do not host unrelated guest pages, white-label promotions or third-party sections to borrow the site's ranking signals.
Corrections
Fix the page, then update the record
A material correction should change the review date. When useful, the page should explain what changed. We improve, combine or remove weak pages instead of keeping them only for traffic.
Commerce
Payment cannot change the answer
Ads and commercial links must be distinct from editorial guidance. Compensation cannot change tool results, page order or the inclusion of safer non-commercial options. Affiliate links, if used, must be marked as sponsored and cannot trigger unrelated scripts on ordinary page views. Learn more about the publication.