Do not outrun the evidence
Strong storytelling is allowed. Unsupported certainty is not. Pages should distinguish direct evidence, scholarly interpretation, oral tradition, reconstruction, and disputed claims.
Relationships need labels
Documentaries, timeline signals, artifacts, people, polities, places, museums, and sources should be connected with relationship labels such as directly connected, same place or culture, same historical period, simultaneous elsewhere, or related evidence.
Documentary-first growth
The catalogs should expand around released and upcoming documentary worlds. Explore pages should connect records across the system instead of becoming random encyclopedia sprawl.
Dignity and context
Violence, enslavement, colonial removal, conquest, religious conflict, and contested identities require human dignity, context, and careful language. Africa should not be flattened into one place, period, or story.
Label reconstructions
Generated, illustrated, composited, restored, or interpretive visuals must be labeled when needed. Artifact and museum images should include credit, rights notes, and source links where possible.
Repair is part of the brand
Corrections should be public, specific, sourced when possible, and connected to the affected page, episode, timeline signal, artifact, caption, or source note.