Editorial guidelines
The practical rules for submissions, sessions, moderation, evidence treatment, publishing, corrections, partnerships, and follow-up outputs.
1. Submissions must be testable
Clerisi accepts ideas, claims, talks, and proposals that can be examined through structured formats. Submissions should state the central question, the public relevance, the disagreement or uncertainty, and the expected value of the output.
Accepted
Clear propositions, evidence-sensitive claims, unresolved public questions, serious proposals, and topics that benefit from challenge.
Rejected or deferred
Pure promotion, vague inspiration, personal attacks, unserious controversy, and claims with no examinable basis.
2. Evidence is separated from assertion
Clerisi distinguishes claims, evidence, interpretation, uncertainty, and opinion. Sources should be named where possible. When evidence is weak, incomplete, contested, or unavailable, the record should say so plainly.
- Primary sources are preferred over second-hand summaries.
- Counter-evidence should be invited, not hidden.
- Uncertainty should be visible in summaries and archive entries.
- Corrections should update the record without silently erasing the earlier version.
3. Moderation protects the format
Moderators do not exist to manufacture conflict. They protect the rules of the format, keep the question precise, manage time, surface substantive objections, include relevant audience participation, and close with a fair account of what became clearer.
4. Every session should leave usable outputs
The live moment is not the product by itself. Clerisi preserves the session record and may publish replays, transcripts, analysis, clips, resources, or archive entries where appropriate.
5. Corrections are part of the record
If Clerisi publishes an inaccurate claim, summary, title, transcript segment, assessment, or metadata item, the correction should be visible and proportionate to the error. Material corrections should include a short correction note.
6. Sponsors cannot buy conclusions
Partners may support a session, topic programme, or knowledge asset. They cannot purchase an assessment, suppress an objection, dictate editorial conclusions, or interfere with the correction process.
Launch note: This is a designed editorial operating draft. It should be reviewed before being used as the binding internal governance policy.