ElectronicsInfoline · Since 2000

Editorial and Corrections Policy

This page explains how we decide what to publish, how we check it, and what happens when we get something wrong. It is short because the policy is short.

What we publish

Three things: lessons and glossary entries on the foundations of electronics, hand-researched resource guides, and the engineering tools. Nothing else.

We do not publish news, press releases, sponsored articles or listicles assembled from other people's listicles. We did some of that in earlier years. We stopped.

Who writes it

Every page carries the credit ElectronicsInfoline Editorial. That is not a committee. The site has been owned and edited by the same engineer in India since 2000, and he is the person accountable for what is on it. The About page has the history.

We use software in the writing and checking process, including AI systems, the way any modern editorial desk does. No page is published without a person reading it, editing it and deciding it is good enough to carry the site's name. If a page reads as though nobody was home, that is a defect, and we would like to hear about it.

The numbers have to be right

Every computed value in every lesson passes through an automated verification harness before the lesson can be published. If the text says a capacitor reaches about 63% of its final voltage after one time constant, that figure has been recalculated independently by software and compared with what the page claims. A mismatch blocks publication.

The harness catches arithmetic. It does not catch a wrong idea explained with correct arithmetic. That part is still on us, and it is where most reader corrections turn out to be useful.

Research and evidence

Resource guides are researched by using the thing being reviewed. When we say a simulator does something, we ran it. Screenshots on this site are captured by us from the real software, not generated and not borrowed. Where we quote a specification, we quote the manufacturer's documentation, and we say so.

Verdicts marked "Our take" are opinions. They are ours, they are not for sale, and they may change when the software does.

Independence

Advertising and editorial are kept apart. No advertiser sees a page before it is published, no advertiser can buy a mention or a ranking, and no article is written to please one. Some outbound links earn us a commission if you buy something; the advertiser disclosure explains which, and the commission never decides what we recommend.

Corrections

If a number, a formula, a claim or a screenshot anywhere on this site is wrong, write to [email protected] with the page address and the value you believe is wrong. If you can say what you expected instead, better still. Error reports go to the front of the queue.

This is what happens next.

We check the claim against the source, whether that is a datasheet, a derivation or the software itself. If you are right, we fix the page at the source, re-run the verification harness, and republish. Confirmed errors are usually fixed within a few days; a calculation error that could affect a circuit someone might build is fixed the day we confirm it.

Typos, broken links and formatting faults are fixed quietly. A change that alters a number, a formula or a conclusion is noted on the page itself, so a reader who used the old version can see what changed. We do not delete pages to hide mistakes.

You will get a reply either way, including when we think the page was right. If we disagree, we will say why.

The tools are not editorial

Output from the engineering tools is generated per request from the data you give them and the documents they read. It is not reviewed by an editor before you see it, and it can be wrong. Treat it as a fast first pass, verify it against the datasheet, and read the technical disclaimer before you build anything.

The short version

We publish only what we have researched ourselves. Every number is machine-checked. Every page is read by a person. Nobody can buy a recommendation. If we are wrong, tell us, and we will fix it.

That has been the rule since 18 October 2000. It still is.