EDITORIAL METHOD / PROVENANCE / CITATION

Editorial and Citation Policy

The archive is built around traceability, revision and explicit uncertainty. Every plaque, mural, sculpture, timber element, drawing and photograph should have a stable identifier and a route back to primary imagery, formal publication or an authoritative institutional source.

Policy version 1.0 · 31 July 2026
01

One object, one ID

Duplicate sizes, watermarks and reposts do not create new object records.

02

Image–object match

Only an image attributable to the specific object is used as its identification image.

03

Local provenance

Credits, rights, status and original links appear beside the relevant material.

04

Visible uncertainty

Pending and partly verified records remain qualified rather than completed by inference.

EDITORIAL WORKFLOW

From lead to published record

  1. 01

    Receive

    Capture the object, proposed change, original link, creator and licence.

  2. 02

    Verify

    Prioritise heritage institutions, scholarship, survey catalogues and traceable source pages.

  3. 03

    Compare

    Compare text, floor, orientation, composition and details; reject duplicates and misattributions.

  4. 04

    Review

    An administrator checks facts, citations, rights and field completeness.

  5. 05

    Revise

    Stable IDs and URLs remain while status, notes and sources improve.

EVIDENCE LEVELS

Evidence status

Status describes the present strength of evidence, not the importance of the object.

A

Verified

Identity, location and principal sources agree, and the image matches the object.

B

Partly verified

The object is identifiable, but an inscription, attribution, date or image needs evidence.

C

Pending

A credible lead exists, but object-level confirmation is incomplete.

D

Lost

The object is historically documented but no verified survivor or image is available.

RIGHTS / LICENSING

Image and publication rights

  1. 01

    This site supports architectural research, education and public knowledge; rights remain with authors and publishers.

  2. 02

    Creator, platform, licence, original URL and use note are recorded whenever possible. Missing images stay pending.

  3. 03

    Article images are embedded only when they occur in the original article; unrelated web images are not substituted.

  4. 04

    Publication, exhibition and commercial use require permission from the original rights holder.

CORRECTIONS / VERSIONING

Corrections and additions

  1. 01

    Visitors may propose corrections, images and bibliographic leads from a record or contribution page.

  2. 02

    Submissions enter a review queue and never publish automatically.

  3. 03

    A proposal should identify the change and provide a publicly verifiable original source.

  4. 04

    Material may be withdrawn or downgraded while an attribution or rights concern is reviewed.

CITATION GUIDE

How to cite

Use the record title, stable ID, archive name, full URL and access date. Cite the original publication for scholarly claims; cite this archive for its catalogue record, discovery path and editorial version.

WHO / WHY

Maintenance and responsibility

Technical maintenance and archive creation

Chongqing Qiweixi Technology Co., Ltd. maintains the platform, data structure and published archive.

Research support

Taizhou Huaye Culture Development Co., Ltd. supports research organisation and public communication.

Editorial boundary

This is not an official website of Fogong Temple or a heritage authority.

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