Editorial standards and corrections

Sourcing

• We cite the source for each claim that is not common knowledge. We prefer peer-reviewed scholarship, university-press books, museum and archive records and digitized primary sources.
• We list a source only after confirming that it exists and says what we cite it for. We do not invent citations, quotations, statistics or image credits.
• Wikipedia and other encyclopedias help us find sources. We do not cite them as evidence.
• Every article ends with a "What the evidence does not settle" box listing disputed or unconfirmed points.

Separating evidence from legend

Many of our subjects are famous stories. We say which parts are documented, which are contested, and which are legend, and where possible we trace where a legend first appears.

Sensitive subjects

Writing about psychiatric history, eugenics, race science, corpse medicine and similar topics involves real people who were often harmed. We use neutral, careful language, avoid sensational detail, and give no current clinical recommendations. When writing about Indigenous and other historically marginalized communities, we separate community knowledge from outsiders' descriptions and avoid generalizations the sources do not support.

AI assistance

We use AI tools to help with research and drafting. AI assistance does not replace sourcing: an article is published only when its claims trace to sources listed on the page. Where a source could only be checked against an abstract or catalog record and not read in full, the article's open-questions box says so.

Corrections

Send corrections to editor@wondersandmarvels.com with the passage and, ideally, a source. We correct factual errors promptly and log each correction, dated, at the foot of the article. We do not silently rewrite substantive claims.

Independence and links

We do not sell links, editorial placement or rankings. We will not add links whose purpose is to pass search ranking to another site. Any link to a site that shares ownership with us will be disclosed next to the link. See our disclosure policy.