Editorial standards

These are the rules every article on this wiki follows. They exist because the wiki is published by the organization whose framework it describes, and readers are entitled to know how that is kept honest.

Every article and every main section carries one of four labels: established scholarship, research finding, framework claim, or open question. A section is labeled by its weakest important claim. If in doubt, use the more cautious label.

The framework's positions are written as positions. Write "The Bridge describes" or "the framework holds," and not a bare statement of fact. Statements about the world are stated plainly only when they are established scholarship or well-documented research.

Factual claims about research, history, and people need a reference that a reader can find. Summaries of The Bridge name the chapter. References follow APA style. Do not cite a source you have not checked.

Peer-reviewed studies, case collections, and testimony gathered under hypnosis are different kinds of evidence. Do not let a strong source lend weight to a weak one by placing them side by side. See Convergent testimony as a method.

Every article on a framework claim includes the main criticisms or links to them. Objections are stated as their proponents would state them, without a rebuttal attached to each one. An article may give the framework's response. It may not leave the reader thinking the matter is closed when it is not.

No article may suggest that a researcher, author, or organization has endorsed Universal Panpsychism unless they have said so in public and the statement is cited. Articles about people and organizations state their independence. This applies in particular to IANDS.

Articles about living people stick to their published work and public roles. No speculation about private lives, motives, or beliefs they have not stated.

Use short sentences and ordinary words. Define a term the first time it appears. Describe, and do not persuade: no appeals, no promises, no second-person instruction. The wiki explains the framework. It does not recruit for it.

Quotations from The Bridge are exact. Where this wiki uses a label that The Bridge does not, the article says so.

When an error is found it is fixed, and the change is recorded in the article's history with a note saying what changed. The date of the last review appears at the top of each article.

Articles do not tell readers what to do about their health, grief, or mental state. Topics such as death, suicide, and illness are described with care, and readers in distress are pointed to qualified help.