DEALRADAR · EDITORIAL TRUST
Editorial standards and corrections
We help readers make a decision while keeping facts, editorial judgement and uncertainty visible.
What a published guide must contain
- A defined decision, audience, constraints and practical next step.
- Primary sources for prices, specifications, policies, availability or other time-sensitive claims.
- A checked date, source status and explicit unknown state when evidence is missing.
- Comparable criteria, trade-offs, failure signals and a reason to choose or skip.
- Clear affiliate disclosure beside a commercial link. Commission never changes the criteria.
Evidence labels
| Label | Meaning | Reader action |
|---|---|---|
| Official source | Published by the merchant, provider, manufacturer or authority. | Open the source for current terms and eligibility. |
| Editorial observation | Our comparison or explanation based on named evidence. | Check whether the use case matches yours. |
| Unknown until verified | We do not have permitted, current evidence. | Do not treat it as a live price, stock or promise. |
Review and update process
- A writer defines the intent and records source URLs and checked time.
- A second quality pass checks calculations, language, links, schema and disclosure.
- Fast-changing pages are revisited after provider or campaign changes; evergreen criteria are reviewed at least quarterly.
- Expired offers are labelled or removed. We do not leave artificial urgency in place of current evidence.
Corrections
Send a URL, the specific claim, a reliable replacement source and the date you noticed it to [email protected]. We record material corrections with the changed date and reason. Editorial decisions and commercial relationships do not suppress a correction.
What we do not do
We do not buy reviews, copy protected articles, invent ratings or inventory, imply testing that did not happen, or promise a search ranking. Public competitor research records page patterns and observation dates only; it does not claim traffic, revenue or conversion.
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