Editorial guidelines

Who writes the articles

Articles Factory publishes contributed content. Each article carries its author's name, and the author is responsible for its accuracy.

Our own staff also write articles, and rewrite and refresh existing ones to keep them accurate and readable.

How articles are reviewed

Review happens in two stages. Every submission goes through automated checks before it is published. After publication, our staff review articles by hand.

What we check

• Originality. At least 85% of an article must be unique. We check submissions against content already published and indexed elsewhere, working with Copyscape.
• Quality. Submissions must be well organised and useful to a reader. Spam, and AI-generated nonsense or boilerplate, are rejected.
• Suitability. Content must be family-friendly and within our content restrictions (below).
• Links. An article may contain at most three outbound links, and must not be stuffed with links.

What we do not accept

We do not publish sexual or shocking content, or content promoting explosives, guns and other weapons, tobacco, recreational drugs, alcohol sale or misuse, online gambling, prescription drugs, or unapproved pharmaceuticals and supplements. The full definitions are in the terms.

We also do not accept the same article submitted to several categories or to several sites.

After publication

• We check every external link about every ten days. A link that returns an error is removed.
• We remove any article that infringes someone's copyright, and close the accounts of repeat infringers.
• We may remove or stop promoting an article that no longer meets these guidelines.

Published articles are updated and corrected when needed, by our staff or by external expert reviewers.

Health, finance and legal topics

Articles on health, money and law are general information from their authors, not professional advice.

Some of these articles have been checked by external expert reviewers, and we are working towards having all of them reviewed. Until an article has been reviewed, it is the work of its author alone.

Corrections and complaints

If you believe an article is wrong, infringes your rights or breaks these guidelines, tell us through the contact form. Authors whose article was rejected or whose account was suspended can appeal the same way.