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Editorial policy
How a guide is researched and checked: primary rulebooks first, mechanics before numbers, corrections published in place. With worked examples.
How a guide is researched, written and corrected — the same method for every page on this site.
1 · Start from the rulebook, not from coverage
Each explainer begins with the primary text of the rule or the governing body's own description of it. News coverage is useful for finding out which question is being argued, but it is never the source of a definition. Where the primary text is not public, the page says so instead of guessing.
2 · Separate mechanics from numbers
The site explains how a calculation is assembled: which items enter, which are excluded, and in what order the tests apply. Illustrative figures appear only inside calculators, where they are clearly labelled as inputs the reader chooses — never as a claim about a real club.
3 · State the limits in the page
Every explainer ends with what the rule does not cover. Rules differ between competitions, are revised between editions and are applied case by case by the bodies that enforce them. A page that does not say this is misleading by omission.
4 · Correct in place
When a rule changes or a definition is wrong, the page is edited and the date at the top of the article changes with it. There is no separate corrections column: the explanation itself is the source of truth, so it has to be kept accurate.
| Question | What we do | What we do not do |
|---|---|---|
| Where does a definition come from? | Primary rulebook text | Other explainer sites |
| What about figures? | Formulas, plus reader-entered inputs | Club-specific numbers |
| What if sources disagree? | Say where they differ | Pick the convenient one |
| How are errors handled? | Edited in place, dated | Left to age quietly |