Editorial and Source Policy

Which sources we use

1. Regulators, governments, airports, airlines, and manufacturers for facts they control.
2. Research, standards, filings, and technical documents for measured or historical claims.
3. Reliable independent reporting when a primary source does not answer the question.
4. Reader reports as a reason to investigate, not as proof by themselves.

Search ranking is not proof. Other travel pages can reveal a useful question, but we do not copy them or use them in place of better sources.

Information that changes

Airline rules, baggage allowances, airport processes, schedules, routes, prices, passenger rights, visas, health rules, and safety notices can change quickly. We date this research, identify the place or jurisdiction when it matters, link to the source, and tell readers what to check again before travel.

We do not claim real-time access unless a page uses a documented live source. A calculator cannot quote availability or guarantee a connection, and an example fare is not a current price.

How a page is reviewed

We keep the sources used for important claims and note where each claim applies. The reviewed article text receives a SHA-256 hash. If that text changes in a meaningful way, it must be reviewed again.

Where articles come from

Every public article or guide intended to rank in search must originate in a retained UnSpar article workflow. We keep its original article, sources, identifiers, settings, reports, and hashes for review.

Editors may then fact-check, correct, expand, reorganize, format, illustrate, and add useful tools. Older search articles that did not begin in that workflow remain provisional. We keep their URLs and replace or expand them only after a reviewed UnSpar article exists for the page.

How long an article should be

We do not impose one word count on every subject. A narrow question may be complete at about 1,000 words, while a broad decision can require 10,000 or more. The article should be long enough to answer the reader's question with the available evidence, and no longer than it needs to be.

Navigation, forms, tool labels, source lists, and related links do not count as article prose.

Tools and calculations

Interactive tools show their inputs, assumptions, calculations, and main limitation. They do not pretend to book a flight, know a private fare, predict a live queue, or decide a legal right. Important results remain readable with assistive technology and printable without creating an account.

Experience and testing

We never invent a trip, cabin review, airport visit, product test, quote, endorsement, or personal story. If the editors have not performed a test, the page does not use language that implies it has. Source-led analysis is labeled as such.

Automated tools and generated images

Automated systems may assist with research, the required UnSpar workflow, editing, code, and original editorial images. Editors remain responsible for the result. We check claims against retained sources and inspect generated images for implausible details, false logos, text errors, bias, and anything that could be mistaken for documentary proof.

Generated imagery supports a visual idea. It is not evidence that a particular aircraft, airport, route, passenger, or event existed.

Commercial separation

Iliamna has no active affiliate or booking relationship at launch. If that changes, we will label the relationship near relevant links. Payment cannot buy a favorable conclusion, hide a drawback, or change how we handle a correction.

Corrections

We correct factual errors promptly and explain material changes on the page or in the public corrections record.