Editorial policy
How goreledger writes, checks and sources what it publishes.
How entries and articles are made
AI tools produce a first draft. A person then reviews, edits and fact-checks it before it is published. Nothing goes up as raw machine output, and the writing is not copied from other databases. The about page explains what the site is for.
Where facts come from
- Film metadata (year, country, runtime, director, alternate titles) is taken from Wikidata at seed time and is not typed by hand. Typing it by hand was tested and went wrong too often.
- Artwork and trailers come from TMDB.
- British classification history (certificates, refusals, cuts, dates) is checked against the British Board of Film Classification's own published case studies and release records, and against the legislation itself on legislation.gov.uk.
- Box office figures and awards are cited to the source they come from, such as Box Office Mojo or the Academy.
- Prosecution history for the DPP 72 entries is sourced film by film. It is the part most likely to contain an error, so it gets the most scrutiny.
Articles list their sources at the foot of the page. Where a figure cannot be traced to a source, it should not be in the piece.
Ban, refusal, seizure and cut
These are different things and the site keeps them apart. A classification body refusing a certificate is not a government ban. A seizure under the Obscene Publications Act is not a conviction. A cut is not a refusal. Where a film's status depends on the distinction, the entry says which one happened, in which year, and who decided.
Tone
The site documents cruelty, racism and real violence where they are in a film, because a viewer wants to know before pressing play. It does not sermonise about them either way.
Independence and links
Entries are not paid for. Where-to-watch data covers legal streaming, rental and disc sources only, and the site links to no grey-market source.
Corrections
Errors are fixed on the page itself rather than left standing with a footnote. When a published article has been changed after the fact, the article page shows an "Updated" date.