Editorial policy

Trust is not a badge. It is a workflow.

Understanding Roofing exists to make buyers more capable. That requires visible sources, qualified review, careful language, correction history, and a hard line between education and paid installer relationships.

Review record

Author: Understanding Roofing. No individual author is credited yet.
Technical review: Not applicable. This page states policy rather than technical guidance.
Editorial approval: Not completed. The policy below is a draft standard, not an approved one.
Last substantive update: Not recorded. Page-level revision history is not published yet.
Next review due: Not scheduled. Review windows are set when a page enters the editorial workflow.

A trust page that cannot show its own review record has not earned the standard it describes. Every field marked pending is recorded here rather than filled with a plausible name or date, and the same block appears on the methodology, buying-kit, and privacy pages.

Six standards

What we hold ourselves to, and where we currently fall short.

These are commitments, not achievements. The review record at the top of each page states which of them that page has actually met today.

Buyer first

We organize information around the buyer’s decision, not a manufacturer, contractor, or referral payout.

Sources visible

Quantitative, regulatory, safety, warranty, and performance claims carry a source, scope, geography, date, and review window.

Uncertainty shown

We use ranges and explain variables rather than disguising planning guidance as a precise quote or prediction.

Review earned

Pricing, code, safety, warranty, and system-design content requires an appropriately qualified technical review before full publication. No page has passed that review yet.

Commercial separation

Installer compensation never changes editorial scoring. Sponsored placement and material connections are labeled beside the recommendation.

Corrections documented

Material corrections receive a dated note in the log below. Quiet typo fixes do not change the substantive update date.

Corrections

Corrections and error reports

A material correction is one that changes what a reader would do: a price, a measurement, a code or safety statement, a warranty term, a product limit, or the source a claim rests on. Those receive a dated entry below and a new substantive-update date on the page itself.

Changes that do not appear in this log:

Spelling, grammar, punctuation, and formatting fixes.
Link maintenance that does not change what a source says.
Layout, navigation, and accessibility work that leaves the claims intact.

The log

No corrections have been published. This site has never been publicly released, so the log opens empty and begins at first publication rather than being backfilled.

Report an error

Send the page address and what you believe is wrong to hello@understanding-roofing.com. Be honest about what this is today: a shared mailbox on a pre-publication draft. There is no staffed response-time commitment, no correction form, and no public issue queue yet, and saying so is more useful than promising a process that does not exist.

Future installer matching

Education first. Separate consent. Visible compensation.

When installer introductions launch, buyers will see why each installer matched, the vetting criteria, whether a placement is sponsored, and how Understanding Roofing may be paid.

Newsletter or guide consent will never silently authorize contractor contact. Sharing project information will require a separate, explicit step controlled by the buyer.