Editorial Policy

The standard we hold ourselves to

Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at Eski Tarih in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.

Choosing what to cover

What gets written is decided by demand, not by a schedule. A question that keeps arriving, from readers or from our own work, becomes a page. A clever keyword with no real question behind it does not.

The names on the work

Every article carries the name of the person who wrote it and links to their profile. We do not publish under a house byline, because a house cannot be asked to explain itself.

Elif Karaca, Kurucu ve Osmanlı tarihi yazarı. Elif, üniversitede tarih okurken başladığı arşiv merakını bir siteye dönüştürdü. Osmanlı padişahlarını anlatırken efsaneyle belgeyi birbirinden ayırmaya özen gösteriyor.

Mert Tuna, Din ve eski uygarlıklar tarihi yazarı. Mert, peygamberler tarihini ve eski uygarlıkları farklı kaynaklardaki anlatımları karşılaştırarak yazıyor, tek bir anlatıma körü körüne bağlı kalmadan.

Deniz Aksoy, Dünya tarihi yazarı. Deniz, dünya tarihinin hâlâ tartışılan anlarını yazıyor, suikastlardan diktatörlerin son günlerine kadar, iddiaları kaynağına kadar takip etmeden yazmıyor.

How a draft is built

1. Draft from experience, not from a page of search results.
2. Underline every claim that rests on memory rather than a source.
3. Support it or lose it. Each underline is backed by something we can name, or it comes out.
4. A cold read by a second person catches the confident guesses the writer stopped seeing.

Commercial links

A few of the links here make us money. That covers the running costs and stops well short of buying a kinder paragraph around them.

Nobody has ever bought the removal of a fair criticism here, and the ones who try mostly hand us the material for the next article.

Dates

Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.

Our refusals

• Claims about outcomes that nobody can verify.
• Content produced only to fill a keyword slot.
• Recommendations we would not give a friend who asked in person.

Corrections

Send the page and the problem to info@eskitarih.com. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.