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Editorial Policy

How ChequeWriting.com selects topics, verifies financial guidance, uses automation, corrects errors, and keeps advertising separate from editorial decisions.

This policy explains how the Cheque Writing Team prepares, reviews, updates, and corrects content published on ChequeWriting.com. It applies to articles, country guides, tool explanations, examples, and frequently asked questions.

Our objective is to help a reader complete or verify a specific cheque-writing task. We do not publish pages solely to capture a keyword variation, and we do not treat word count as evidence that a page is useful.

Topic Selection and Page Purpose

Before a page is published, it must have a distinct reader question and a clear outcome. A country guide must explain rules or conventions that genuinely differ in that country. A tool page must offer a function, workflow, or set of examples that is materially different from existing pages.

When two pages substantially answer the same question, the stronger page becomes the canonical guide. Useful material may be merged into it, and the overlapping URL is redirected. Draft or incomplete pages are kept out of public navigation and search submission.

Source Standards

We prefer first-party and primary sources. Depending on the claim, these can include:

  • legislation and official legal databases;
  • central banks and financial regulators;
  • cheque-clearing and payment-system operators;
  • consumer-protection and fraud-reporting agencies;
  • official documentation published by the relevant bank;
  • original tests performed with our converter.

Secondary sources may help locate an issue, but important legal, security, timing, or bank-procedure claims should be confirmed against a current primary source. A source from one jurisdiction is not treated as proof of a worldwide rule.

Writing and Manual Review

Published pages must be written for a reader, not assembled from search-result summaries. During review we check whether the page:

  • answers the stated question without sending the reader through unnecessary pages;
  • adds examples, comparisons, tested outputs, or analysis specific to the task;
  • distinguishes general conventions from bank-specific or legal requirements;
  • avoids guarantees about whether a bank will accept a cheque;
  • avoids instructions that could facilitate alteration, counterfeiting, or fraud;
  • removes repeated passages and unsupported superlatives;
  • uses the correct language throughout the page;
  • has working internal and external links.

The author shown on the page is accountable for its presentation. The last-reviewed date changes when a material factual or structural review is completed, not for minor formatting edits.

Automation and AI

We may use software or AI-assisted tools for outlining, translation checks, consistency checks, test-case generation, or locating statements that need verification. We do not publish raw automated output as finished financial guidance.

Human editorial review remains required. The reviewer decides whether the page serves a distinct purpose, checks important claims against suitable sources, tests relevant examples, removes invented or overbroad statements, and approves the page for public navigation and sitemap inclusion.

Automation is never used to create many near-identical country or keyword pages without separate review. A generated translation is not considered complete until its terminology and meaning have been checked in that language.

Converter Testing

Changes to amount conversion are tested with representative and boundary values. These include zero, whole amounts, single-cent amounts, repeated digits, thousands, decimals requiring trailing zeros, and values near configured limits. When a currency or language uses a special convention, the expected result should be documented and tested separately.

The converter result remains an aid. It cannot inspect a physical cheque, validate a signature, confirm a payee name, check an account mandate, or predict a bank's fraud decision.

Cheque rules vary by jurisdiction, account agreement, bank, cheque design, and time. Pages should state their geographical scope and avoid presenting a local convention as universal law. Content is educational and is not legal, tax, investment, credit, or personalised banking advice.

For disputed, rejected, stolen, altered, or high-value cheques, readers should contact the relevant bank through an official channel. Where immediate loss or fraud may be involved, readers should also follow the reporting guidance of the appropriate local authority.

Updates and Corrections

We review pages when a reader reports an error, a cited source changes, a bank or payment system announces a material change, or our periodic review identifies duplication or unsupported claims.

Correction requests can be sent to support@chequewriting.com. A useful request includes the URL, disputed wording, jurisdiction, and a current source. Material corrections update the page and its review date. If a page can no longer be maintained reliably, it may be consolidated, removed from navigation, marked not to be indexed, redirected, or unpublished.

Advertising and Commercial Independence

Advertising does not determine which pages we publish or what conclusions they reach. Advertisers cannot pay to change an article, remove a criticism, or receive a favourable recommendation. Advertising, if enabled, is visually separated from content and limited to pages that have completed editorial review.

During the current AdSense site-review period, AdSense advertising requests are disabled. Legal pages, account pages, errors, empty states, incomplete tools, and other low-value screens are not eligible advertising locations.

Contact

Questions about this policy or a published page can be sent to support@chequewriting.com.