Editorial policy

Scope

CatalogQuay publishes practical guides on digital catalog operations. The language of the publication is English. Examples are not tied to one country. A guide that needs a local legal rule says so and cites the rule. It does not imply that the rule applies everywhere.

Voice

The voice is operational and plain. Guides are signed CatalogQuay Editorial, which is the publication, not a named person. The desk does not write in the voice of a vendor, a customer, or an unnamed expert.

Methods are labeled as methods. A sentence that says what a standard or recommendation requires is tied to that document. A sentence about how a team might run a stage is the publication’s method and is not dressed up as a quotation.

Evidence

A number, a date that comes from a document, a quotation, and a statement that an organization published or required something need a source on the page. The source list names the document, the publisher, and a public URL when one exists.

The desk does not invent statistics, survey results, or averages. It does not invent companies, users, quotations, or testimonials. If a measurement is not in a source the desk has opened, the measurement is left out.

Secondary retellings are not used as the proof of a figure or of an organization’s action. The guide cites the publisher of the document it actually used.

Standards and external documents

Standards are cited for what they say, not for adjacent claims. A data-on-the-web recommendation is not described as a product-catalog law. A vocabulary such as SKOS is not described as the required taxonomy for every business. The limitation is written on the page that uses the source.

The desk does not copy another publisher’s structure or reproduce long passages. A short quotation appears only when the exact wording is the point, and the source is named.

What we do not publish

The publication does not publish vendor pitches, paid placements, fake case studies, or staff profiles of people who do not write here. It does not publish a guide whose only purpose is to occupy a URL. It does not add tracking identifiers until a real analytics property is approved. None is approved for this launch.

Corrections

A material error is corrected on the guide and recorded on the corrections log. The log says what changed. It is not filled with sample entries. A wording improvement that does not change a fact may be made without a log line. A change to a cited fact gets a line.

How to ask for a correction is on the contact page. About the publication states the scope those requests have to fit.

Dates

A guide’s publication date is the day it was added to the site. An updated date is added when a published fact changes. Source dates stay in the working notes. The page shows the document title, publisher, and URL.

Changes to this policy

This policy is the one the desk follows for the launch set. If the rules change, this page changes in the same update, and the updated date moves with it. A rule that is not followed is not left on the page as an aspiration.