Last updated: August 20, 2026. This page describes how pages are made. It is an editorial policy, not a claim of professional licensure.
Publisher
Halo is the publisher and the human responsible for what goes public. On Day 0, no article has been approved for publication. Merge and first public posting require a person.
AI assistance
Drafting, outlining, or source-gathering may use a language model. That is a production tool, not an author with a biography and not a substitute for checking a primary source. We will not present a model as a certified planner, attorney, or eyewitness.
When AI is used on a public article, internal records should keep the model name, prompt version, and generation mode (starting from FREE_MANUAL in the v2 pipeline). Those records are for the publisher’s audit trail; they are not a promise that a model is “correct.”
Human review
A person reviews articles before they are public. Review is supposed to catch invented citations, personalized advice, copied wording, and numbers that do not match the linked source. Review can fail; readers should still verify.
What we will not publish
- Personalized “you should” instructions for a reader’s money, taxes, or trades
- Fake first-person war stories or fake credentials
- Generative images labeled as photographs of real people, banks, or events
- Copied outlines or wording from commercial ebooks or other publishers’ explainers
- Thin pages written only to occupy a keyword
Sources and claims
Quantitative claims (rates, limits, dates, legal tests) belong with a primary source: a government, regulator, or standard-setter page, not an unsourced round number. If we cannot source it, we should cut it.
FAQ blocks
A page gets an FAQ only when there are real, distinct questions. We do not add a dummy FAQ just to emit FAQPage markup.
Corrections
Factual errors should be fixed in the page and, when the change is material, reflected in lastmod. Contact, once an email exists, is on the Contact page.