Editorial principles
updated 2026-10-22
These principles govern everything starfeed.com publishes beyond the raw collected headlines: translations, briefings, schedules and profile notes. They are enforced by automatic checks and by people who review the operator queue.
Source grades
- •A — wire services, public broadcasters and major national papers (Reuters, AP, Yonhap, BBC, NYT, NHK and similar). Closest to official statements.
- •B — major and specialist outlets and verified datasets (Naver News, major newspapers, Variety, Billboard, MusicBrainz, Wikipedia and similar).
- •C — entertainment outlets, social networks, blogs, communities and aggregators (Reddit, YouTube, X, OSEN, GDELT and similar).
- •Briefings cite A and B sources only. C sources may be mentioned as “also reported by…” but never carry a claim on their own.
Rules for every briefing
- •Three to five sentences. Every sentence ends with the number of the source it comes from and the source's date.
- •No sentence without a source. No speculation, no adjectives, no “reportedly”, “allegedly”, “netizens say”.
- •A claim that only one outlet reports is written as “one outlet reports…”. A claim is never written as confirmed without an A-grade or official source.
- •If the input does not support a sentence, the sentence is omitted. A day with no reliable sources gets no briefing.
- •Original articles are never copied. We summarise, quote at most a few words, and link.
Automatic checks before publishing
- •Every cited source number exists in the input; every cited URL answers 200; every sentence date falls within its sources' dates.
- •Forbidden expressions, language purity (no mixed scripts), length, duplicate of the previous day, and a render test on the actual page.
- •A briefing that fails any check is saved as a draft, shown to no reader, and queued for a person.
Where people step in
- •The operator queue receives drafts, correction requests and reported contributions; a person approves, edits or rejects. Approved briefings carry the “reviewed by a person” label.
- •Two reports from different devices hide a fan contribution until review.
- •Once a week a sample of published briefings is read by a person and the rules above are tightened if anything slipped through.
What we do not publish
- •Claims about health, death, relationships, legal trouble or similar that rest on a single or C-grade source.
- •Content about private individuals, or content whose main purpose is to harm a person's reputation.
- •Machine-translated pages in languages where we have no written content; those pages exist for readers but are not offered to search engines.
Press rules — how we treat other outlets
- •We never reproduce an outlet's article. Headlines and summaries are written in our own words; a quoted fragment is at most a few words, in quotation marks, with the outlet named.
- •Every factual sentence names and links the outlet that reported it. The reporting belongs to them; our part is collection, context and labelling.
- •We never use an outlet's photos, graphics or logos. Star photos come from Wikimedia Commons or official channels and carry their credit; article thumbnails are generated by us.
- •Our headline is never a copy of an outlet's headline. Paywalled details are not reproduced.
- •Any outlet can ask us to stop citing its domain; we honour such requests and keep an exclusion list. Requests go through the correction form (“Other”) or @starfeedcom.
- •Articles are labelled “AI-written from cited sources” or “reviewed by a person”, carry the publication and last-modified time, and link to the corrections policy.