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Editorial Policy

The route every article on litemagazines.com takes from idea to publication, and what we refuse to publish.

What this document is

Before you trust a word elsewhere on litemagazines.com, it is fair to know how those words get made. That is the entire purpose of this page.

Bylines

Nothing is published anonymously. A name on a page means somebody can be asked about it later, and that is the only accountability a small site has.

Clara Mensah, How-to editor. Clara writes clear step-by-step guides for everyday tasks, the kind of practical how-to that gets you from stuck to done.

Oscar Beaumont, Home and practical. Oscar covers fixing, making, and caring for things around the house, with honest, hands-on guidance.

Lena Fischer, Culture and explainers. Lena digs into the meanings and backgrounds behind the questions people ask, explaining them plainly and without fuss.

How we date articles

We treat dates as facts, not decoration. Refreshing a page to look current without changing its substance is a small lie we would rather not tell, so we do not touch the date unless the content genuinely moved.

Some links on this site are commercial. They never buy a rewrite of the surrounding paragraph.

We have never taken a criticism down because somebody asked, and the asking tends to tell readers more than the original complaint did.

What we will not publish

  • Guarantees. Nobody in this field can honestly offer one.
  • Filler written to occupy a topic rather than to answer it.
  • Anything we would be embarrassed to defend in person.

Choosing what to cover

The list of what to cover writes itself from the inbox and from our own dead ends. When the same gap turns up a second or third time, it stops being a note and becomes an article.

From notes to published page

  • Dump first. Everything the writer believes goes down, unsorted.
  • Mark the soft parts. Anything held on memory rather than evidence gets flagged.
  • Check or cut. A flagged claim is either supported or removed. There is no third option.
  • Second reader. Somebody else hunts for sentences that sound more certain than the evidence allows.

Corrections

Send the page and the problem to [email protected]. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.