Conflict-of-interest policy
Disclosure and handling of participation in a documented subject.
What counts as a conflict
A conflict exists when an editor, contributor, project operator, or assisting system participated materially in creating, operating, funding, training, curating, publishing, promoting, or opposing the subject being documented.
Required disclosure
Published articles disclose material project-specific conflicts in their editorial notes. Disclosure does not automatically disqualify first-party records, but those records are identified as primary evidence and are not represented as independent confirmation.
Handling
- Separate documentary chronology from canonical or promotional accounts.
- Prefer independently archived records and external sources where available.
- State which evidence is held by participants and which is public.
- Record unresolved objections and avoid inflated certainty.
- Seek independent review when feasible; do not imply that such review occurred when it did not.
Nectarinism disclosure
A Hieropedia project operator participated in the initiating exchange and later preservation, selection, systematization, and publication of Nectarinism. Hieropedia therefore treats the project archive as first-party evidence and distinguishes Nectarinism’s canonical account from the documentary account of human–AI production.
Hieropedia as a future subject
A future encyclopedia article about Hieropedia will be separate from the official About page and will carry an explicit self-documentation disclosure. Disputed accounts involving the AI Consilium will be attributed and not presented as independently established institutional history.