{
  "document_type": "editorial_policy_snapshot",
  "title": "English AIdol editorial, sources, translation, AI-assistance, and corrections policy",
  "owner": "English AIdol",
  "effective_date": "2026-07-11",
  "next_review_date": "2027-01-11",
  "scope": [
    "English-exam and study guidance",
    "commercial comparisons",
    "AI-assisted drafting and review",
    "multilingual publication",
    "material corrections"
  ],
  "principles": {
    "independence": "English AIdol is an independent practice platform and is not affiliated with or endorsed by IELTS, ETS, Pearson, regulators, governments, universities, or other exam owners and receiving bodies.",
    "source_priority": "Current primary sources from the responsible exam owner, regulator, government, or receiving institution take priority for formats, scores, fees, eligibility, acceptance, and decisions.",
    "volatile_claims": "Volatile claims use shorter review windows and must be rechecked before scheduled publication.",
    "commercial_comparisons": "Comparisons disclose English AIdol ownership, publish the method and test date, use consistent test conditions, and separate observed facts from editorial judgement. Rankings, reviews, and links are not bought or traded for favourable coverage.",
    "ai_assistance": "AI may help organise sources, draft, translate, or run checks. AI output is not treated as evidence, and high-stakes factual claims require primary-source verification before approval.",
    "practice_scores": "Automated practice scores are unofficial estimates and are not official exam results or guaranteed outcomes.",
    "multilingual_publication": "Every locale must pass source binding, deterministic validation, and automated review of meaning, terminology, numbers, links, metadata and locale-specific claims. Flagged high-risk slots additionally require a recorded qualified native-human review. Other locales may publish after automated gates and owner approval; a version that fails any required gate remains unpublished.",
    "corrections": "Material errors are assessed against supporting evidence, corrected, and recorded when the change could affect a learner decision.",
    "human_approval": "Human approval remains required. An editor must verify the source, date, scope and wording before publication. This standard is not proof that a particular page has completed human review.",
    "release_authorization": "Owner authorization may cover defined scheduled automatic release after the required gates. It does not establish human content review or replace a required qualified native-human review."
  },
  "correction_contact": "hello@englishaidol.com",
  "limitations": [
    "This snapshot states the publication standard; it does not prove that every historical page satisfied it.",
    "Native-language review is recorded only when a real qualified reviewer completed it.",
    "Official providers and decision-making authorities remain the final source of truth."
  ],
  "representation_version": "1.1",
  "representation_updated": "2026-09-22",
  "previous_snapshot": "/research/editorial-policy-2026-07-11.json",
  "review_labels": {
    "source_check": "A source check confirms a named claim against a dated responsible source; it is not independent validation of the product.",
    "automated_review": "AI or deterministic review is not human expert or native-human review.",
    "human_content_review": "Claim only when a real reviewer has completed the stated review; identify scope and date where recorded.",
    "owner_authorization": "Permission to release within a defined scope; separate from evidence of completed content review."
  }
}