Editorial Policy

What this document is

Everything published on iw-kaiyun.com takes the same route from idea to page. This document explains that route so you can judge our work fairly.

How we choose what to write

A subject earns a page when somebody has asked about it twice, or when we went looking for the answer ourselves and came back empty handed.

What we will not publish

• Guarantees. Nobody in this field can honestly offer one.
• Filler written to occupy a topic rather than to answer it.
• Anything we would be embarrassed to defend in person.

Commercial links

A minority of outbound links are commercial. None of them have ever changed a sentence that was written before the link existed.

If a partner asks us to remove a criticism, the answer is no, and the request itself may end up mentioned in a future article.

Dates

The date on an article is the date it was published. When a change alters the advice, we update the modified date and say what changed. Cosmetic edits do not reset the date, because pretending a page is fresher than it is helps nobody.

How a draft is built

1. The writer collects what they already know and marks the parts they cannot support.
2. Those parts are checked against a primary source, an operator document, or direct experience.
3. What survives step two goes into the draft. What does not is cut.
4. A second person reads the draft for claims that sound firmer than the evidence behind them.

Named writers

Nothing is published anonymously. A name on a page means somebody can be asked about it later, and that is the only accountability a small site has.

Callum Ashworth, Match tactics and analysis writer. Callum spent years coaching at semi-professional level before moving to writing full time. He watches matches back at half speed more often than he would like to admit, and writes about tactics the way he used to explain them to his own squad.

Priya Nandakumar, Player development and coaching writer. Priya has worked with youth academies on and off for over a decade, mostly at the age groups nobody writes about. She writes about development with a bias toward what actually happens on a Tuesday training session, not what looks good in a highlight reel.

Dario Bianchi, Fan culture and club history writer. Dario grew up going to matches with three generations of his family before he ever picked up a notebook about it. He writes about the parts of football that happen away from the pitch, the chants, the rivalries, and the identity questions clubs rarely answer honestly.

Corrections

Corrections go to info@iw-kaiyun.com. Include the address and the sentence. Anything factual is fixed without argument. Anything that changes what the article recommends gets a dated note underneath, so the change is visible.