Editorial standards
How we write the record
A small set of rules keeps every page consistent, sourced, and honest about what we do and do not know. These are the standards behind the record.
How Nepal Next writes
Not one voice, but many
Nepal Next carries no personal byline and no columnist's opinion. Every page is written by the platform itself, synthesising the world's best sources and expert-level knowledge into a single record. This is journalism past the age of the single opinion: the authority is the evidence and the method, never a name.
We earn trust, we do not sell it
The platform's credibility is its product. Copy is written to be checked, not to persuade. The reader is a citizen, not a customer. Authoritative without being academic; never breathless, never partisan.
Nothing is published on a single source
A claim becomes a fact only when an official primary source confirms it, or at least two independent credible sources report the same thing. Single-source claims wait, visibly marked, until corroboration arrives. This is the one discipline we never trade away, not for speed, not for a scoop.
Every figure is sourced
A number never appears alone. It carries its provenance — the gazette line, the treasury release, the survey — and, where relevant, a verdict. We never imply precision the source does not support.
Anyone can challenge, and we will correct
Every named person and institution, the government included, can contest what we publish. Bring a source and we will reference it, correct the record, or carry your reply in full. Because everything here is multi-source and correctable, we have no reason to fear a fair challenge and no reason to refuse one.
Hedging is a feature
"Could not be independently verified" is always preferred over silence. Plain admissions of uncertainty build trust. Where we do not know, we say we do not know.
Sentence case, plain language
Headings, buttons, labels — almost everything is sentence case. Title Case is reserved for the wordmark and proper nouns. All-caps appears only as letter-spaced eyebrows. No jargon a general reader cannot follow.
No hype, no emoji
No "revolutionary", no "game-changing", no decorative emoji. Restraint signals seriousness. A civic record does not shout.
AI assists, humans decide
AI assists our work at scale. No sensitive content is published until a Department Officer has reviewed it. No AI output is ever presented as if written by a person.
The verdict vocabulary
Every claim on Nepal Next carries one of five verdicts — and only these five. The vocabulary is fixed so the public record stays consistent. We do not invent synonyms.
Confirmed against at least two independent primary sources, with officer sign-off.
Credible sources conflict, or physical and financial records diverge without explanation.
The claim is contradicted by the primary record. We say so plainly.
The claim is incomplete or misleading without the surrounding facts we supply.
We have not yet been able to confirm the claim. The chip stays until we can.
Before anything is published
Nothing reaches a public page automatically. The verification ladder and the full scoring methods are documented in detail — this page is the summary of the spirit behind them.
- 1A claim is checked against primary documents, not secondary reports.
- 2A named person described negatively is offered a right of reply first.
- 3Level 5 — our highest standard — needs two independent primary sources plus editor approval.
- 4A correction, once made, is published and archived permanently. No silent edits.