Editorial policy

Standards

1. Attribute operational facts to primary sources with check dates.
2. Separate editorial judgement from official rules.
3. Do not invent first-hand visits, prices, live opening status, room capacity, awards or testimonials.
4. Prefer official tourism, transport and operator pages over secondary blogs.
5. When sources disagree, cite the more specific current policy and flag the conflict in todoVerify.
6. Translations are reviewed per locale; English source changes create stale-translation tasks — we do not auto-publish unreviewed DE/FR.

AI assistance

Drafting tools may help structure articles. They do not replace source checks. Any sentence that states a concrete operational fact should be traceable to a cited URL or marked for verification.

Selection and commerce

• Hotel shortlists start as research candidates from official property sites.
• Affiliate booking links appear only where configured and useful; they do not silently rewrite official links. Partner details live on the affiliate disclosure page.
• We do not sell rankings or invent “best of” scores.

Updates and corrections

• Time-sensitive pages (SaastalCard, lift seasons, Mattmark bus windows) should be re-checked when seasons change.
• Material safety or access corrections should be updated promptly across affected languages once confirmed.
• Report errors via Contact.

Publication gate

Public production routes require status: published plus review flags when the site runs in production mode with drafts excluded. Draft and preview builds may show incomplete pages with noindex.