Editorial Policy: How Saber Atlas Writes and Checks Guides

This page explains how guides on Saber Atlas are chosen, researched, dated, corrected and kept independent. It is written so you can judge how far to trust any page here, and so we can be held to it.

How we choose topics

We write about what people actually need to decide or fix: which saber to buy, how a part works, how to charge a battery safely, how to start dueling. Topics come from reader questions and from gaps in what existing guides explain. We do not pick a topic because a shop has a product to push.

How we research

We open the sources we cite. If a claim appears only in a search snippet or a summary of someone else’s article, we either find the original or leave the claim out.

• Important claims, such as specs, safety statements and warranty terms, need two sources we opened.
• When only one source supports a claim, the page says so and names that source, for example “the vendor states”.
• Vendor specifications are treated as vendor claims, not measured facts.
• Sources are listed at the bottom of a page when it cites outside facts.

Hands-on testing

We do not claim to have tested a product unless the page shows the test: what was measured, how, and the result. Where a guide lacks a measurement, it says the measurement is missing instead of implying one. If a sentence on any page reads like personal testing and no test is shown, treat it as a mistake and tell us.

Dates and rechecks

Every guide carries a last verified date. That date changes only when someone has reopened the sources and confirmed the page still holds up, not when a typo is fixed. Each page also has a review cycle, six months by default. When the cycle runs out, the page is rechecked or marked as out of date. Prices and availability move faster than that, so check the date before you buy.

Prices

Any price we mention is dated, or sits on a page whose verified date tells you when it was seen. Prices are a snapshot from a listing, not a quote. We do not promise that a shop still charges what a page says.

Corrections

If you find an error, use the contact form. We check the report against the sources, fix the page in place instead of publishing a second version, and update its last verified date. We do not quietly leave a known error live while we decide what to do about it.

Images

We use only images we are licensed to use, with credit where the licence asks for it. We do not copy product photos from shops or film stills from the web. If a guide has no suitable image, it goes without one. A separate page listing media credits is planned; until it exists, credits sit next to each image or in the page text.

Independence

No shop, maker or marketplace pays for placement, a better ranking, a kinder sentence or a removed criticism. Vendors do not see a page before it is published. How shop links are marked, and the current state of any commission, is described in the affiliate disclosure. The site is funded by advertising, covered on the privacy page, and ads do not influence which products appear in a guide.

Canon and Legends

Star Wars material comes in two kinds: canon, the stories the owners currently treat as official, and Legends, the older material they relabelled. When a guide discusses lore, we label which one a fact belongs to, and we say so when the two disagree. Lore facts follow the owners’ published material, not fan memory.

AI writing tools

Guides on this site are prepared with AI writing tools and checked against opened sources by the editorial team.

Tools can write confident errors, which is why the source rule above matters more than who typed the first draft.

For the rules on using the site, see the terms of use. For who is behind it, see about.