How this encyclopedia is edited
Four rules, and each exists because breaking it is how a generated encyclopedia becomes a liability with a domain name.
1. Nothing publishes unreviewed
Every draft passes a human approval gate before it is indexed. Auto-publish is not a setting somebody forgot to turn on — it is a later, explicit, per-topic decision the owner makes, and until then a draft that nobody has read is marked and kept out of search.
2. Every article shows its sources and its confidence
Where a claim comes from is on the page. Where a question is genuinely open — as with the Mpemba effect — the article says it is open instead of picking the tidier answer. An unsourced statement is marked rather than smoothed over.
3. A refusal list, enforced at request time
medical advice, legal advice, financial advice, claims about living people, anything defamatory. Enforced when the request arrives, not by hoping a model declines later. These are the queries where a generated encyclopedia does real harm and attracts real liability.
4. Dedupe before generate, every time
A request is embedded and compared against the corpus first. Above the measured similarity floor, the existing article is opened and an improvement to a section is offered instead of a second page. Near-duplicates at scale are a spam-policy problem, not merely untidiness — and the unit compared is a SECTION rather than a whole document, because that is what actually overlaps.
Where the review desk lives
On the control plane, not here. Staff authorisation passes only there, so a review desk on this site would refuse everybody including real staff, for ever. This site links out to it.
The substance threshold
An article below 350 words is kept out of the sitemap until it grows. A short article is not a bad one, but a corpus of short ones is a penalty.
Questions
What happens to a rejected draft?
It is kept with the reason, so the same request does not silently produce the same rejected draft again.
Can I correct an article?
Yes, and you do not need an account to report an error — a correction path that requires signing up is one most readers will not use.