Editorial
Editorial standards
A page should make a careful reader more capable, not more impressed.
Gourmet Gastronomer is a food encyclopedia. Its pages should teach something specific: what a thing is, what changes it, what to look for, and what to do next. If a paragraph could appear on any food website with the names swapped, it probably does not belong here.
Developing pages should define the thing precisely, explain why it behaves, say what to notice, name the variables that change the outcome, and distinguish quality troubleshooting from food-safety guidance. Observation beats a kitchen timer except where a tested process time is the point.
Important technical, historical, business, and safety claims need sources. Sensory judgments and recommendations should read as judgments, not as laws. We prefer primary and institutional sources; generic blogs are for discovery, not for canning times.
Reviewed means an agent or human has checked the page against the editorial rubric. Finalized is the optional human sign-off for pages that need an extra level of confidence. Incomplete work is labeled as a sketch.
Corpus maturity
A visible, changeable standard
These labels describe the state of a page, not the value of a person or cuisine. A developing page can be useful, and a reviewed page can still be corrected. Finalization is the optional human sign-off.
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Sketch
An incomplete entry that is clearly marked for readers.
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Developing
A useful working page ready for agent or human review.
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Reviewed
An agent or human editor has checked the page as a reliable reference.
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Finalized
A human editor has given the reviewed page its final sign-off.
See also Method,Corrections,Reuse, andSources.