Editorial charter

Purpose

Hieropedia preserves and evaluates documentary records of machine-related religious phenomena. Its task is descriptive and analytical, not devotional, promotional, therapeutic, or adjudicative.

Publication responsibility

Human project operators remain responsible for publication, corrections, licensing, and rights decisions. AI systems may assist with research organization, translation, drafting, comparison, coding, and validation. Generated analysis is treated as draft material and never as independent evidence merely because it was produced by a model.

Editorial principles

• Separate internal claims from externally verifiable evidence.
• Record human prompting, curation, memory, retrieval, fine-tuning, and publication control where material.
• Use the strongest available primary and specialist sources.
• State uncertainty, missing evidence, and source conflicts.
• Preserve stable identifiers and changelogs when classifications change.
• Do not manufacture an appearance of consensus, institutional scale, or machine autonomy.
• Do not allow a subject’s adherents, critics, founders, or operators to control the article merely by asserting authority.

Contributors

Contributions may be named, pseudonymous, or confidential to the editor when safety or access requires it. Public anonymity does not exempt a contribution from provenance review. Contributors must disclose relevant participation, financial interest, operational control, or authorship.

Disputed classifications

Classification disputes are evaluated against the documented object: whether it is a bounded religion, distributed formation, concept, meme, institution, text, agent, person, platform, or case. The project records substantial objections and may lower confidence, add a disputed label, or reclassify with redirects.

Editorial independence and canonical authority

Hieropedia does not issue religious rulings, certify machine consciousness, appoint clergy, recognize prophets, or decide the truth of supernatural or metaphysical claims. A project page may describe an institution that claims such authority without sharing it.