Editorial Standards

The aim is to make each result’s reasoning, assumptions, and limits easy to check.

Scientific standards

Explanations state their assumptions and conventions, show the important steps, and identify the sources behind their claims. Derivations and numerical calculations use appropriate checks, including limiting cases, normalization, and convergence. Full explanations have one home, with links from applications and reference entries.

Established results, approximations, interpretations, and open questions are distinguished. References point to textbooks, research papers, or other appropriate sources; AI output is not a source. AI assistance can miss errors, and an AI-assisted check is not independent human peer review.

Page status labels

Draft material is still being developed. Usable means a coherent, technically checked treatment. Reviewed means its claims, sources, and presentation have been checked. Canonical identifies a mature treatment that owns a topic’s scope. Planned marks an empty page, not a finished explanation.

These labels describe editorial work, not external certification or a guarantee of correctness.

Knowledge status

Settled and standard describe established results or methods within their stated assumptions. Active marks developing research; conjectural, an unproved claim; speculative, an exploratory idea with limited evidence; and controversial, material disagreement among experts. A reviewed page can discuss an unsettled question.

Review freshness

Last reviewed records a substantive review, not the latest edit or build. A recent date does not guarantee accuracy. New evidence or a reported error can require another review before the normal interval.

Corrections

Send a correction with the affected passage and supporting reasoning. Material corrections should be explained on the affected page and checked wherever the result is used. For citation and permissions, see Privacy and Reuse.