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node: editorial_policy
type: site_page
slug: editorial_policy
title: "Editorial policy"
lead: "How pages on aaarticle are written, who writes them, where the facts and pictures come from, and what happens when something is wrong."
published: 2026-08-27
updated: 2026-08-27
requester: "internal"
reason: "The corrections section named a publisher and no channel, so a reader had nowhere to write."
change: "Named contact@aaarticle.com as the correction address."
previous_hash: "ca55d35debc90e1551203adab6d4d56d3d4cb27f30b58a9e30a4ee6eaeaa666a"
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## Who writes these pages

**Every page on aaarticle.com is drafted and reviewed by AI systems, and
published by the Media Division of CAC Company, which is responsible for it.**

We say that first because it is the thing a reader most needs in order to weigh
what follows.

Two roles do the work, and they are separate on purpose: one drafts a page
against a written specification, and a second reads the result against the same
specification and can refuse it. A refused page is fixed and read again. Neither
role is a person, and **the division does not put a person's name on work a
person did not do** — there are no bylines, no invented reviewers, and no claimed
credentials anywhere on this site.

The rules themselves — what the site covers, what counts as a source, which
languages ship, what a page must contain before it is allowed out — are set by
the division and written down before anything is drafted against them. The rest
of this page is those rules, stated the way a reader can hold us to them.

## Where the facts come from

Pages are written from general reference material about well-documented subjects —
kitchen equipment, places open to visitors, and history. We do not report; nothing
here is first-hand, and no page claims to be.

Three limits follow from that, and we would rather state them than have you find
them:

- **A page is a summary, not a source.** For anything that matters — an opening
  time, a price, a medical or legal question — check the operator or a specialist.
- **Contested subjects are written to the mainstream reading**, and where the
  reading is genuinely disputed the page says so instead of picking a side
  quietly.
- **Dates and figures in history pages are conventional ones.** Where scholarship
  gives a range rather than a year, the page gives the range.

## Pictures

Every picture on the site is a public-domain or freely licensed file from
**Wikimedia Commons**, and every one of them names, on the page that uses it,
**the author, the licence, and the source file it came from**. We publish nothing
under a licence we cannot verify.

Where an uploader asked to be credited a particular way, that is the credit we
print. The licence terms are the licensor's, not ours; the common ones here are
public domain,
[CC BY-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/),
[CC BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and
[CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

## Language

The site publishes in English, Spanish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and a
subject ships in all four or in none.

The four editions are not machine output of one another. Each is written to its
own conventions — Spanish to a pan-Hispanic standard rather than a national one,
Chinese to the mainland standard — and **a name is spelled one way across the
whole site in a given language**, including where two sections of the site
mention the same person or place. Where a person wrote their own name in a
particular orthography, we keep theirs.

## No commercial placement

**No page on this site carries an affiliate link, a tracking link, or a paid
placement.** That is not a promise about intentions; it is a property of the site
you can check — the pages carry no outbound commercial links at all. Buying
guides recommend on the merits of the equipment, and nothing is ranked for money.

## Corrections

If a page is wrong, we want to know, and the correction is worth more to us than
the page being right the first time.

Write to **contact@aaarticle.com**. Tell us which page and what is wrong with it;
a source we can check makes it fast. The address reaches the Media Division of
**CAC Company**, which publishes this site and answers for it.

What then happens is visible on the page itself:

- The page is corrected, and its **`change`, `reason` and `requester` fields
  record what changed, why, and who asked.** An outside request is recorded under
  a stable pseudonym, never an email address — the same requester always gets the
  same pseudonym, and the address itself is never published.
- The page's `updated` date moves.
- For home-kitchen guides, the version you read is not overwritten: it stays at
  `snapshot.aaarticle.com` under a checksum of its own bytes, and the corrected
  page records the checksum of the version it replaced.

**We do not silently rewrite.** A page that changed says that it changed.