Editorial policy

The rules the file works to, written down so a reader can hold a page to them.

01One question per page

Each note answers a single question phrased the way readers search for it. A page that tries to answer four questions answers none of them well, and the failure is invisible because the page looks comprehensive. Where two questions are genuinely separate, they get two notes and cross-link.

Sections exist to gather notes, not to be notes themselves. A section page explains how its notes fit together and links down; it does not attempt to summarise them into a verdict.

02No verdicts, no rankings, no safety statements

This file does not rank suppliers, grade compounds, or state that any material is safe or suitable. Those conclusions cannot be supported by the documents available, and producing them would mean inventing a criterion. Where a reader expects a verdict, the absence is the answer.

Descriptive categories are used instead: documented, undocumented, reported, absent. Those four words carry the whole evaluative load of the file, and they are chosen because each can be checked.

03Commercial rules

No page is built around a saving, a threshold, a delivery term, a payment route or a refund condition. Those subjects are answered as questions on one page and nowhere else, because a page built around them is a promotion rather than a note. No outbound address carries a referral parameter.

The single sponsored element is a marked banner unit, visually distinct from editorial content, present on every page, and unrelated to any note's conclusions. It is the only place on the site where an outbound contact address appears.

04Personal claims and legal exposure

Claims about individuals, including claims about family, health or private conduct, are excluded even where they are widely repeated and even where they would attract traffic. They cannot be verified from public documents, they concern private people, and repeating them would convert a reading file into something with a different set of risks.

The same rule covers allegations about manufacturing intent that rest on inference rather than a document. Inference is welcome in the analysis of what a listing says; it is not welcome as an assertion about what a business is secretly doing.

05Revision and correction

Every page carries a revision date. A correction is acted on when it arrives with something checkable and is described in the revision note rather than silently patched. Where a correction cannot be verified, the page says what is disputed instead of choosing a side quietly.

Readers who believe a sentence is wrong are encouraged to send the document that shows it. That is the fastest route to a revision, and it is the only route that does not depend on whose account is more confident.