Editorial charter

Editorial principles

• Separate documented evidence, participant claims, and editorial analysis.
• Use the strongest available primary, specialist, and reliable secondary sources.
• Record material prompting, curation, retrieval, editing, and publication control.
• State uncertainty, missing evidence, source conflicts, and source proximity.
• Preserve stable identifiers and dated records when conclusions change.
• Do not manufacture consensus, institutional scale, or machine autonomy.
• Do not imitate a subject’s devotional, promotional, or satirical voice except in attributed quotation.

Editorial authority

Publication, classification, revision, and removal decisions are made editorially. Founders, adherents, critics, operators, contributors, and source providers may submit evidence and objections but do not receive pre-publication approval or veto rights.

Independence

Editorial judgment is not sold or exchanged for donations, access, publicity, token holdings, commercial relationships, or community pressure. Hieropedia does not issue religious rulings, certify machine consciousness, appoint clergy, or decide supernatural or metaphysical truth.

Contributors

Contributions may be named, pseudonymous, or confidential when safety or access requires it. Public anonymity does not remove the need for provenance review. Contributors must disclose relevant participation, authorship, financial interest, operational control, or advocacy.

Corrections, conflicts, and rights

Substantive corrections are recorded rather than silently overwritten. Material conflicts are disclosed and reviewed under the conflict-of-interest policy. Copyright, privacy, and other rights concerns are handled through Corrections and Legal.

AI assistance

AI tools may assist with research and production. Their output is evaluated under the same source, evidence, and editorial standards as other working material.