Editorial Standards
MoorOfUS publishes evidence-first Moorish history, Northwest African context, Maghreb and al-Andalus records, Moorish public memory, and myth-vs-evidence claim review.
Evidence first
Public claims require public, reviewable sources. MoorOfUS gives priority to named scholarship, primary-source collections, museum and archive records, source-library entries, and clearly dated institutional sources.
Scope
The site is not a general religion site, general Black history site, general African diaspora site, or broad culture-war platform. Articles outside Moorish, Northwest African, Maghreb, al-Andalus, Moorish memory, or myth-vs-evidence scope are noindexed or reframed only when a clear MoorOfUS connection exists.
Private evidence
Private family, genetic, ritual, or lineage information may guide caution, but it is not used as public proof unless explicitly authorized and reviewable by readers.
Corrections
Correction requests should identify the public claim, page URL, and source trail. Corrections are reviewed for accuracy, scope, and reader clarity.
Evidence labels
MoorOfUS uses evidence labels to keep pages honest. A source-supported statement should point to a public source. A partially supported statement should say what is supported and what remains uncertain. A public-memory statement should be identified as memory or later reception, not converted into medieval proof. A modern claim should be reviewed as a modern claim unless the source trail connects it to the historical subject.
Indexing posture
Indexable pages should carry enough context for a reader arriving from search to understand the topic without relying on a thin label. Short detail records, source stubs, taxonomy pages, and claim pages that still need review may remain available to readers while marked noindex,follow and excluded from the sitemap. That keeps navigation intact without asking search engines to index unfinished evidence trails.
Reader safety
The site avoids legal-status instructions, identity-proof language, private lineage validation, and unsupported ancestry claims. This protects readers from confusing historical discussion with legal, genealogical, genetic, or membership advice. If a topic touches identity, religion, public memory, race, or legal-risk language, the page should use careful scope notes and source-specific wording.
Source presentation
A good MoorOfUS page should make the reader’s next step obvious. If a claim depends on a book, archive, museum record, heritage record, or government source, the page should name that source and explain the job it performs. If the page is using a source only for background context, it should not pretend that the source proves a narrower identity claim.
Revision posture
Pages can improve without changing the mission. A revision may add a better citation, replace vague wording with source-specific wording, move a detail record out of the sitemap, or add a correction note. The standard is not to make every page sound final. The standard is to make every page honest about what readers can verify.