Editorial policy

Scope and register

Pages are written in an encyclopedic register: third person, present tense and neutral in tone. They carry no recommendations, no marketing language and no statements addressed to the reader. In articles and reference pages every fact is stated together with its source; policy pages such as this one state the publisher's own rules and carry no datums. Where sources disagree, for example two editions of a standard or two publishers, the page says so and cites both.

Pages describe in general terms what standards require and point to the standard for the values. A page never substitutes for a standard, never states whether particular equipment passes or fails, and never gives instructions that would allow energized work to be performed from the page alone. Safety statements are limited to general, widely published practice and always cite their source.

Named responsibility

The publisher, Verlecta LLC, owns and funds the site and appoints the editor. It has no say over the content of any page beyond this policy.

The editor of record signs off every page before publication, owns the corrections log and has the final word on disputes. The editor is named on every page. The position has not yet been filled.

The reviewing engineer, a senior practitioner, reviews the technical accuracy of individual pages and is named on the pages reviewed, with the review date. The position is vacant. Until it is filled, each page states that it has not been reviewed by an engineer, and no page claims an engineering review it has not had.

Editorial staff are the people and software tools working under the editor. They draft text and extract datums. They are never named as authors, and no page carries a machine byline.

Drafting method

Drafts of pages and their first-pass review are produced with language-model software. The extraction of datums from source documents is software-assisted. A named human reviews and signs off every page before publication, and no page is published without human review and sign-off by the editor of record. The software is a drafting method, not an author, and it never substitutes for that human review.

Review workflow

Every page passes through the same sequence of states: draft, agent review, engineer review, editor sign-off, publication, and corrections after publication. Agent review is a first review performed by language-model software, separate from the drafting run. The engineer review step is recorded as not yet performed while the reviewing engineer position is vacant. The production build that generates the public site refuses any page or datum below human review, so the sequence is enforced by the publishing system and not only by convention.

After publication, errors are handled under the corrections policy, and every substantive correction is logged publicly.

Versioned, dated pages

Every page shows its first publication date, last reviewed date, date of last substantive change, revision number, editor of record and reviewing engineer, or the statement that it has not yet been reviewed by an engineer.

Every revision of a page is kept and remains available at a permanent revision address, so a citation to a revision never changes meaning. Every datum carries its own history, and the change log of a page combines its text revisions with the history of the datums it cites.

Sources

The authorities, in order, are the standard itself, cited by designation, edition and clause or page; statutes and regulations; the publisher's own catalog and public pages; and government works. Aggregators, vendor publications, forum threads and unauthorized copies of standards may help locate a fact, but they are never cited as its authority.

Each page ends with a list of every source it cites: designation, full title, edition, publisher, the clauses cited, how the site holds the document, and a link to the publisher's official catalog or sales page. The sources page lists every document the site holds, by edition.

Standards and the license boundary

Standards are copyrighted works licensed to their purchasers. The site states facts about them and never reproduces their expression. Facts are restated in original wording and sentence structure.

No table from a licensed standard appears on the site, in whole or in substance. Acceptance values and limits from licensed standards are withheld: a page describes the general shape of the criteria and names the clause where the values are found. Because selection and arrangement can be protected even when single facts are not, the publishing system also counts values drawn from any one table across the whole site, and the permitted count is currently zero.

Standards are named by designation as references, never as endorsers. The site does not claim approval or endorsement from any standards body, and it does not claim that any page, product or practice conforms to a standard.

Some documents carry publisher terms that restrict automated processing or derived use. Where a document carries such terms, or where its terms have not yet been fully reviewed, the site withholds the affected material or limits the related pages to catalog facts written by a person, until the question is resolved. Material withheld on these grounds is never served by the site, its data interface or its machine-readable services.

Every datum traces to a standard purchased from its publisher or an authorized seller, a public source, or a government work. The text of internal reading notes is never published.

Advertising, sponsorship and affiliate links

The site carries no advertising, no sponsored content and no product placement, and it names no product, software vendor, instrument maker or testing firm in its articles.

Purchase links to standards sold through the ANSI webstore may carry affiliate parameters, and a purchase made through such a link may earn the publisher a commission. These links are marked as sponsored, and a disclosure appears beside every block of purchase links. Commission does not influence which standards are covered, how they are described or which edition is cited. Standards from other publishers are given plain links to the publisher's own catalog or store.

Conflicts of interest

Anyone may report an error through the form on the contact page. Reports are handled under the corrections policy, and the outcome of every substantive report is logged publicly. Facts are never changed silently.

The publisher also develops software for recording electrical test data. This policy binds the publisher, and the site treats every instrument and software product identically by not naming any of them.