Editorial policy

Editorial policy and corrections

Every spec cited, every derived number computed, nothing invented, and mistakes fixed in public. The standards, and the correction process.

1. 1Published specifications, cited. Every product entry lists the manufacturer or retail pages its figures came from.
2. 2Derived figures, computed. Thickness, working loads, volume conversions and bench heights are calculated by shared code from published inputs, not typed into content.
3. 3Editorial judgment, labeled as such. Which product we would buy is an opinion. It is written as one, and the reasoning is on the page.
4. 4The absence of a spec, where there is one. Not published is a real answer and it appears throughout this site.

• Testing claims. We have not opened, loaded or owned any product on this site.
• Credentials. The author holds no trade certification and none is implied. No tenure claims, no years-of-experience framing.
• Scores or ratings. A numeric score implies an evaluation we did not perform, which is also why no page here emits Review or AggregateRating structured data.
• Customer reviews or testimonials. We do not aggregate them and this publication has none of its own to quote.
• Remembered prices or specs. If it was not read from a live source, it does not go on the page.
• Fabricated urgency. No countdowns, no only-two-left, no deal-ends-soon.

No manufacturer or retailer has any input into what appears here. Nothing on this site has been sponsored, gifted or paid for, and no page has been shown to a brand before publication. The only commercial relationship is Amazon Associates commission, set out in full on the disclosure page.

Where a commercial relationship could reasonably look like it shaped a conclusion - a recommendation we earn on, against an alternative we do not - the page states the relationship next to the conclusion rather than in a footer.

A site built on published arithmetic has to be genuinely correctable. If a figure here is wrong, tell us with the source you are working from and we will check it against the manufacturer page.

1. 1Factual errors are corrected as soon as they are confirmed, and the page's Last reviewed date is updated.
2. 2Substantive corrections are noted on the page, so a reader can see what changed rather than finding a quietly different number.
3. 3Typos and formatting are fixed silently. Nobody needs a changelog entry for a missing comma.
4. 4Where a manufacturer changes a published spec, the page is updated to the current figure and the change is noted, because the old number was not wrong when it was written.

Product listings change, specifications get revised and models get discontinued. Pages carry a Last reviewed date rather than a publication year in the URL, so the freshness signal is a real date on a real review rather than a slug that has to be rewritten every January.

The author owns tools, and some of them are from brands covered here. That is unavoidable in a category like this and it is not a testing claim - owning a wrench set does not make anyone an authority on the cabinet it lives in, and nothing on this site is written from personal experience of a specific product.

Stud & Stack is published by Slate Mill Group, which operates several independent publications. No page here is written to benefit another property, and there is no cross-linking between them for search purposes.