Reference Governance
Editorial Policy
The LGBTQIA+ History Timeline is being developed as a source-backed public reference. Its editorial standard is to make historical claims visible, attributable, and maintainable.
Purpose
The site documents LGBTQIA+ history through timeline events, topic guides, and direct answer pages. It is designed for readers, educators, researchers, search engines, and answer systems that need concise historical context with visible evidence.
Content selection
Events and reference pages are prioritised when they have historical significance, clear public-interest value, and enough reliable sourcing to support the claim being made. The project avoids creating thin pages for every named person, organisation, law, or place unless there is enough material to support a useful reference entry.
Evidence standard
Important claims should be backed by primary, legal, government, academic, archival, or reputable secondary sources wherever possible. When a page is still being migrated from legacy timeline data, its review status should make that clear.
Review status
Reference pages can carry one of several editorial states: reviewed, needs review, source check needed, stale, or blocked. These states are used to separate published content from content that still needs stronger citation, date checking, or editorial follow-up.
Neutrality and language
The site aims to use plain, respectful, historically specific language. Where older legal, medical, or media terms are relevant to the historical record, they should be contextualised rather than repeated uncritically.
Corrections
Corrections and source improvements are part of the maintenance process. Readers can use the corrections page to flag suspected errors, missing context, dead links, or better sources.
