Editorial Standards

Who we are

Cards4.net is edited by H. Marcell, a software engineer who runs the site and reviews everything published under the guides and blog. Editorial decisions — what to cover, how to phrase a strategic claim, when to cite a source — sit with a single accountable editor rather than a rotating byline.

Editorial process

Every article starts from a working draft that either explains a rule set, walks through a strategic idea, or documents something about the site itself. Drafts are researched against primary sources first — published rulebooks, academic papers on solver coverage, and reputable card-game encyclopedias — before any writing begins.

Factual claims get cross-referenced before publication. Statistics (win rates, solvability percentages, expected-value figures) are checked against academic sources or reproducible simulations. Historical facts (dates, attributions, name origins) are checked against Wikipedia and, where they matter, against the primary references Wikipedia itself cites.

When an error is found after publication, we correct the article in place and note the correction inline where it changes the meaning of the paragraph. Guides and evergreen strategy pieces are revisited on roughly a yearly cadence; drafts that are not ready to publish stay behind a draft flag and are never indexed.

Citation policy

Mathematical and statistical claims link out to an academic or otherwise reproducible source. Historical claims link out to Wikipedia (or, where a more authoritative reference exists, to that reference directly). Rule descriptions link out to a recognized card-game encyclopedia when there is any ambiguity about the canonical rule set.

Editor bio

H. Marcell edits guides and blog posts on Cards4.net. Software engineer by background, with a long-running interest in card-game mathematics and privacy-respecting web tools. Cross-checks every strategic claim against reproducible sources — win rates, solvability figures, and historical dates all trace to published references. Runs the site's editorial standards and picks the pseudonym on purpose: the writing should be judged on its accuracy, not its byline.

Contact

Corrections, questions, and story tips are welcome at editorial@cards4.net.