Publishing standards

Start closest to the fact

1. Primary: legislation, regulator publications, official statistics, filings, venue rules, index methodologies and contract documents.
2. Authoritative secondary: recognised research institutions and technical references with transparent methods.
3. Contextual: reputable reporting used to locate or compare primary evidence.
4. Discovery only: unsourced posts, snippets and promotional claims are not evidence for a substantive conclusion.

Observation, calculation and inference

Pages identify dates, geography, currency, units and methodology. Reported facts are distinguished from locally reproduced calculations; interpretations are qualified, and competing explanations are considered. Scenarios carry no implied probability.

A correction leaves a trace

Material factual, source or calculation changes should append a visible record. Minor spelling or style edits need not.

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Disclose interests close to the work

Contributors must disclose material holdings, employment, consulting, family or other relationships that could reasonably be seen to affect a topic. The editor should remove, reassign or prominently disclose the conflict. A generic independence claim cannot cure a specific undisclosed interest.

Roles and accountability

Published work should identify the responsible editorial role and distinguish authorship, technical review and updates where those functions exist. No credential, qualification or professional status is claimed unless verified and relevant. Contributor arrangements remain to be confirmed before launch.

Review according to change risk

Time-sensitive regulatory, tax, contract and market-structure pages should be checked more frequently than durable concept explainers. A review date means “checked on”, not “guaranteed current until”. Event-driven review follows major rule, methodology or source changes.

Preserve context

Materially superseded pages should be dated, labelled and retained where useful rather than silently rewritten into apparent foresight. Broken source links should be replaced with stable or archived references when lawful and available.

No sponsorship or affiliate publishing

The preview accepts no sponsored articles, paid rankings, affiliate links, lead payments, broker relationships or transaction-linked compensation. If the funding model changes, the standards and each affected page must be updated before publication; paid influence must never be disguised as editorial judgement.

Accessibility and restraint are editorial checks

Plain language, semantic structure, meaningful labels, readable tables and non-colour cues are part of accuracy. Headlines must not overstate evidence, manufacture urgency or imply guaranteed outcomes.