Editorial policy

Who writes these pages

Every page on aaarticle.com is drafted and reviewed by AI systems, and published by the Media Division of CAC Company, which is responsible for it.

We say that first because it is the thing a reader most needs in order to weigh what follows.

Two roles do the work, and they are separate on purpose: one drafts a page against a written specification, and a second reads the result against the same specification and can refuse it. A refused page is fixed and read again. Neither role is a person, and the division does not put a person’s name on work a person did not do — there are no bylines, no invented reviewers, and no claimed credentials anywhere on this site.

The rules themselves — what the site covers, what counts as a source, which languages ship, what a page must contain before it is allowed out — are set by the division and written down before anything is drafted against them. The rest of this page is those rules, stated the way a reader can hold us to them.

Where the facts come from

Pages are written from general reference material about well-documented subjects — kitchen equipment, places open to visitors, and history. We do not report; nothing here is first-hand, and no page claims to be.

Three limits follow from that, and we would rather state them than have you find them:

• A page is a summary, not a source. For anything that matters — an opening time, a price, a medical or legal question — check the operator or a specialist.
• Contested subjects are written to the mainstream reading, and where the reading is genuinely disputed the page says so instead of picking a side quietly.
• Dates and figures in history pages are conventional ones. Where scholarship gives a range rather than a year, the page gives the range.

Pictures

Every picture on the site is a public-domain or freely licensed file from Wikimedia Commons, and every one of them names, on the page that uses it, the author, the licence, and the source file it came from. We publish nothing under a licence we cannot verify.

Where an uploader asked to be credited a particular way, that is the credit we print. The licence terms are the licensor’s, not ours; the common ones here are public domain, CC BY-SA, CC BY and CC0.

Language

The site publishes in English, Spanish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and a subject ships in all four or in none.

The four editions are not machine output of one another. Each is written to its own conventions — Spanish to a pan-Hispanic standard rather than a national one, Chinese to the mainland standard — and a name is spelled one way across the whole site in a given language, including where two sections of the site mention the same person or place. Where a person wrote their own name in a particular orthography, we keep theirs.

No commercial placement

No page on this site carries an affiliate link, a tracking link, or a paid placement. That is not a promise about intentions; it is a property of the site you can check — the pages carry no outbound commercial links at all. Buying guides recommend on the merits of the equipment, and nothing is ranked for money.

Corrections

If a page is wrong, we want to know, and the correction is worth more to us than the page being right the first time.

Write to contact@aaarticle.com. Tell us which page and what is wrong with it; a source we can check makes it fast. The address reaches the Media Division of CAC Company, which publishes this site and answers for it.

What then happens is visible on the page itself:

• The page is corrected, and its change, reason and requester fields record what changed, why, and who asked. An outside request is recorded under a stable pseudonym, never an email address — the same requester always gets the same pseudonym, and the address itself is never published.
• The page’s updated date moves.
• For home-kitchen guides, the version you read is not overwritten: it stays at snapshot.aaarticle.com under a checksum of its own bytes, and the corrected page records the checksum of the version it replaced.

We do not silently rewrite. A page that changed says that it changed.