Editorial standards

What we publish

The editor-in-chief chooses every subject. There is no automated selection, and nobody can buy an article. We write about an object when we can explain what makes it remarkable: its engineering, its materials, its design or the way it is made. A verdict is welcome as long as it is argued, and an article may be critical of an expensive or famous product.

Three kinds of article

• News: a new product or a current development, short and factual.
• Feature: a review or technical background on a single subject.
• In Depth: an extended analysis, or a story that needs room.

Sources

We work from official product information, technical documentation and reliable independent sources. What we cannot establish, we do not present as fact. Where sources disagree, we say so. The main sources are listed beneath each article.

Images

We only use images we are allowed to publish: press photographs supplied by the manufacturer, or photographs under a free licence, such as those on Wikimedia Commons. The photographer, the licence and the source are given with every photograph.

AI

Exceptionalistique uses AI for research and for writing. The editor-in-chief chooses the subjects, decides on the content and approves every article for publication, and is therefore responsible for what appears, mistakes included. If you spot one, please let us know.

Articles appear under the name Exceptionalistique. Where an article carries an author's name, it is that author's piece.

Two languages

Exceptionalistique appears in Dutch and in English. Not every article exists in both. An English version is written for English-speaking readers rather than translated word for word, and it is approved separately before publication.

Corrections

If an article contains a mistake, we correct it and show the date of the change with the article. A correction of substance is described at the end of the text.