Editorial standards

Trust is part of the reading experience. Because this project sits near questions of wellbeing, its pages must be more careful than a generic self-help content site.

Each guide begins with a distinct reader question and must add useful recognition, lived context, a practical next step, or research interpretation. The project and book are by Nikhil Thakur, and the site discloses its editorial method rather than inventing credentials or social proof.

The pages do not diagnose, treat, or promise recovery. Factual claims need credible source context and clear limits. A page must still be worth reading if it sends nobody to a book listing.

The quality test asks whether a page offers recognition without exploiting fear, context beyond a definition, one proportionate action, clear sources and limits, and an honest account of book fit. These standards are also a promise not to invent testimonials, credentials, diagnoses, certainty, or search-engine-only text that a reader would never see.

The standard is applied before publication and during review: is the wording specific, is the page distinct from its neighbors, is the action proportionate, and is the source boundary clear? When a page cannot answer those questions, it should be revised, consolidated, or left unpublished rather than padded for a word-count target.