Trust and governance

Editorial policy

The policy governs magazine content, public eligibility, evidence, authorship, corrections, disclosure, indexing and advertising separation.

Scope

BMLabs Magazine publishes original academic guidance on mathematical learning, university study, research practice, examination preparation, postgraduate decisions, higher-education teaching, and responsible academic technology use.

Authorship

Every article identifies a real author through the BMLabs author registry. Role, institution, expertise basis and original contribution are visible on the article page.

Publication status

Draft, review, specialist-review-required, noindex, archived and removed states are distinct. Only published articles with noindex disabled appear in normal listings, search and magazine sitemaps.

Evidence

Current rules, amounts, policies, statistics and specialist claims require dated authoritative sources. A source must support a specific claim rather than appearing as an unrelated reading list item.

Restricted topics

Finance, health-adjacent claims and other specialist areas remain blocked from normal publication until the required reviewer or source gate is complete.

Dates

Published date records first publication. Modified date changes only after a material content change. A routine build never simulates freshness.

AI assistance

Articles support a visible disclosure state. AI assistance may support editing or research organisation, but it does not replace authorship, source verification or specialist review.

Corrections

Material factual corrections are recorded with a date, type, description and affected section. Readers can report suspected errors through the corrections route.

Advertising

Advertising is separated from editorial decisions and is disabled on blocked, noindex, legal, trust, search, focus-mode and print surfaces.

A page must deserve to exist without search traffic or advertising.

BMLabs should publish fewer, stronger and more useful pages. Thin pages, doorway pages, artificial freshness and unsupported guarantees are not acceptable.