Editorial Standards: Clear Sources, Useful Decisions
ApiDepot.com is organized to help developers make clearer API decisions. Our editorial standard is to explain the work behind a useful integration: what a capability does, which questions need verification, and how a team can evaluate the result. Guides should be practical, sources should be visible, and uncertainty should remain explicit. This page describes the principles for directory descriptions, educational articles, and comparisons, including the distinction between a worked example and evidence about a real service.
Use sources that support the specific claim
Technical explanations should draw on primary references such as official documentation, published specifications, and original research where appropriate. A source should support the statement beside it rather than merely concern the same broad topic. Provider-specific capabilities, limits, prices, and terms require attention to the actual service and account arrangement being discussed.
Editorial guidance can recommend a workflow or illustrate a decision, but it should distinguish that reasoning from reported facts. Avoid invented adoption figures, unsupported performance claims, and implied certifications. Preserve important qualifications when describing a feature. Useful sourcing helps readers verify a detail and understand where a general explanation stops and a provider’s specific contract begins.
Make comparisons specific and evidence-aware
Comparisons should identify the workflow, requirements, and evaluation conditions behind a conclusion. A candidate can be a strong fit for one application and unsuitable for another. Avoid universal rankings when the evidence only supports a narrower judgment. Keep essential requirements separate from weighted preferences so a missing capability is not hidden by strengths in unrelated areas.
Distinguish measured results, statements from documentation, and unresolved questions. Explain material limitations of a pilot, including its scale and test inputs. If no direct test has been performed, do not imply otherwise. A useful comparison leaves the reader with a clear reason for the recommendation and enough context to decide whether that reasoning applies.
Label examples and preserve their assumptions
Worked examples should make their assumptions visible. Hypothetical prices, traffic volumes, token counts, and timing budgets are teaching inputs rather than statements about a provider. Arithmetic should be inspectable, and the explanation should identify important costs or conditions excluded from the example. Readers should be able to replace the assumptions with their own verified figures.
Examples should also preserve relevant uncertainty. A missing field, an unsupported question, or a partially completed operation deserves an explicit outcome. Avoid sample workflows that turn guesses into facts or hide consequential actions behind a successful request. Concrete examples are most useful when they demonstrate both the intended behavior and a realistic boundary.
Keep corrections practical and traceable
Clear feedback helps improve a technical resource. When suggesting a correction, identify the page, the statement that needs attention, and a primary reference or reproducible observation that supports the change. Distinguish an error from a preference for another approach. Both can be useful, but they require different editorial decisions.
Content should be revisited when a source changes, a provider updates a relevant contract, or readers identify a substantive gap. Preserve the purpose of the page while correcting the affected explanation. Suggestions for new topics should describe the developer question they would answer. The contact page provides a route for submitting that focused feedback and helping shape future additions.
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