Editorial policy
Last updated 3 October 2026.
This page explains how we write the guides on the WrittenCheck blog: who writes them, where the facts come from, how we use AI tools and what happens when we get something wrong.
Who writes our articles
Articles are written and published by the WrittenCheck team, the same small independent team in Pakistan that runs the detector. They appear under the byline "WrittenCheck Team". You can read more about us on the about page.
What we write about
We write practical guides on AI writing and AI detection for three groups: teachers, students and writers. We pick topics from the questions people actually ask, including the questions people type into search engines and the ones they send us by email. A topic only makes it onto the blog if we can answer it usefully and back the answer with good sources.
Sources and fact-checking
- Every statistic, study result, rule or date in an article must come from a source we have opened and read.
- We prefer primary sources: the research paper, the official style guide, the law or the organisation's own page. When we rely on a summary by someone else, we say so.
- Each article lists its sources at the end, with links and dates.
- If we can't confirm a claim, we leave it out.
- Research that hasn't been peer reviewed, such as preprints and working papers, is labelled as such in the text.
- Example texts, sample emails and student scenarios are made up to illustrate a point. We say when something is an example, and we never present an invented case as a real one.
How we use AI tools
We're an AI detection site, so you deserve a straight answer on this. We use AI tools to help with research and drafting. A person on our team decides what each article covers, checks every fact against its source, edits the text and approves it before it goes live. The team is responsible for everything we publish, whoever or whatever helped write the first draft.
What we don't publish about our own detector
Our blog doesn't quote accuracy figures or test results for the WrittenCheck detector. The detector is retrained regularly, so numbers in an article would soon be out of date. Current test results live on one page only, how it works, with the date of each test.
Independence and other companies
- No company pays us to write about it, and we don't publish sponsored or paid articles.
- We don't publish comparisons or test results of other companies' AI detectors or writing tools.
- When we mention a product, a university or an organisation, it's to cite a fact, and we name it plainly. A mention isn't an endorsement, and we aren't affiliated with them.
- Our articles don't contain affiliate links.
If this ever changes, for example if we start showing ads, ads will be clearly separate from articles and won't affect what we write.
Advice, not rules
Our guides give general information. They aren't legal advice, and they don't replace your school's or employer's own rules on AI. When an article covers rules, such as citation formats or AI policies, we link to the official source so you can check the latest version. See our disclaimer for more.
Updates and corrections
We review articles when the facts behind them change, such as a new version of a style guide or a new law. When we make a real change, we update the article and its date.
If you find an error, email writtenchecksupport@gmail.com with the article's address and what's wrong. We check every report. If we got something wrong, we fix it. Small fixes like typos and broken links are made quietly. If a correction changes the meaning of what we said, we add a short note in the article saying what we changed.
Comments
Readers can comment on articles. Every comment is checked by us before it appears. We publish comments that add to the discussion, including ones that disagree with us. We don't publish spam, personal attacks, other people's private information or advertising.
