Editorial Standards

Editorial purpose

IGIGI General Store preserves and presents substantial writing about city culture, style, entertainment, relationships and everyday life. The archive favors complete articles with a clear subject and recognizable editorial value. It does not publish scraped search pages, tag listings, thin announcements, expired offers or fragments whose main purpose was navigation on another website.

Selection and minimum substance

An article must be long enough to make and support a point. During restoration we measure the actual editorial body after removing menus, headers, footers, comment prompts, advertisements and other page furniture. Material below the archive’s minimum threshold is held back rather than padded with generic text. Word count is only a floor: a long page can still be rejected if it is incoherent, duplicated or outside the site’s subject.

Topic fit is reviewed across the complete collection, not inferred from one attractive title. A coherent donor era should read like one magazine: similar interests, compatible audiences and a consistent editorial voice. If a later group of pages changes into unrelated commercial content, that cohort is excluded. One source archive is assigned to one destination so the same recovered corpus is not distributed across multiple sites.

Restoration and cleanup

Archived web pages often contain more interface than article. We remove source logos, search boxes, menus, “leave a comment” prompts, related-post widgets, newsletter forms and expired ad containers. External hyperlinks are removed when the destination is no longer necessary to understand the sentence; the anchor text remains when it forms part of the prose. An in-body headline that duplicates the WordPress title is also removed.

Titles lose mechanical source-site suffixes such as a publication name appended after a separator. The article’s original headline, date and substantive body remain. We do not add invented quotations, bylines, reviews, product tests or first-hand claims. Where a restored page identifies a previous publication, that historical credit may remain in the prose because it is useful provenance, not a current affiliation.

Images and accessibility

An image is published only when a recoverable file can be verified as image data. Retained files are copied to local storage, served over HTTPS and checked from both the public site and its origin. Broken placeholders are removed. Decorative images use empty alternative text; informative images receive concise text when the subject is reasonably clear. A caption or embedded credit is retained when it helps identify the source or scene.

Dates, corrections and sensitive material

Publication dates are part of the record. Older articles may use language, examples or assumptions that would be framed differently today. We do not erase that context, but we do correct clear transcription errors, broken entities and restoration mistakes. A correction should be proportionate and should not disguise the historical nature of the article.

Some essays discuss sexual assault, illness, sex, body image or other adult subjects. These pieces are included for their editorial substance, not for shock value. Headlines are not artificially softened when that would misrepresent the article, but the site avoids sensational thumbnails and misleading promotional copy.

Commercial independence

The archive does not accept payment to alter an archived opinion, insert an undisclosed endorsement or manufacture a personal experience. A company, product, venue or media title mentioned in an article is part of the story’s historical context and does not imply a current partnership. If future sponsored material is ever introduced, it must be labeled plainly and kept separate from the restored editorial corpus.

Reader feedback

Readers can flag a restoration error by commenting on the relevant article. Comments are moderated and may be used as a private correction channel rather than published. Useful reports identify the headline, the exact sentence or media item and the reason it appears inaccurate or broken. Requests to erase accurate historical criticism or replace it with promotional language are not corrections.