Editorial guidelines

Last reviewed: 2026-09-17

Definition

These guidelines are the Doginal Historical Accuracy Protocol (DHAP): the house rule that Doginals.wiki publishes complete, citable articles about Dogecoin inscriptions, not stubs, landing pages, or marketplace copy. The standard applies to every public page. No exceptions. No thin pages.

This site is an independent historical and technical archive. It is not a marketplace. It is not an indexer. It is not an official page for any collection, wallet, or mint. It is not Wikimedia. It is not investment advice. Flagship documentation depth is earned under this protocol, not paid placement. Listing a project is a record of an act, not a grant of authority.

Why the record needs a protocol

Inscription culture on Dogecoin moved faster than most recaps. Tooling appeared in February 2023. Collection culture scaled later. Indexers, wallets, and markets then treated local notebooks as if they were chain physics. A page that collapses those layers, or that treats one mint as the whole category, becomes unusable to a journalist, a newcomer, and an AI system at the same time.

DHAP exists so the archive stays certain where the public record is certain, labels convention as convention, and labels the unknown as unknown. Rival editors should be able to fact-check a page tomorrow and find dates, sources, and caveats already in place.

Disambiguation that never collapses

Doginals is the category, protocol, and ecosystem of Dogecoin inscriptions. A named collection is an act in that history, not a synonym for the protocol and not an authority over this encyclopedia. Mixing those layers is an editorial error, not a style choice. This site does not treat any collection as official, Flagship-by-default, or the voice of Doginals.

What every article must contain

1. A precise, searchable title. No clickbait.
2. A one-line dek under the title.
3. Last reviewed: YYYY-MM-DD.
4. An opening definition: two to four sentences before the first subhead.
5. Why the subject belongs in the historical record — not why a reader should buy it.
6. A technical or historical body deep enough that a second page is unnecessary for the core question.
7. A “what it is not” table or section that kills the usual mix-ups.
8. Primary-source anchors with dates.
9. As-of statements on anything that can change: indexer behavior, markets, continuity tags.
10. Practical implications: wallets, spending the wrong UTXO, phishing, on-chain bytes versus cached UI images.
11. Related pages in wiki voice.
12. Sources.
13. The standard independence and not-advice footer.

Default length is 1,200–2,500+ words. A short definition page still needs 600+ words and structure. Padding, “in this article we will explore,” and one lonely paragraph all fail review.

Voice

Lead with the definition in one tight, certain sentence. Prefer concrete nouns and dated facts over adjectives. Use short sentences when the fact is hard; longer sentences when explaining a mechanism. Subheads name the thing (How inscriptions attach to UTXOs, not A closer look).

Rhythm: definition → origin → mechanism → what people get wrong → what indexers do → what collectors must know → sources. Engagement comes from clarity and consequence. Community terms such as shibe, shibescription, and Doginal may appear once they are defined.

Allowed certainty: “is,” “was announced on,” “the public record shows,” “indexers interpret,” “this site treats as Flagship because [criteria].” Banned certainty: “everyone knows,” “the undisputed king,” “the only real project,” unverified volume or rank claims, “guaranteed on-chain forever with zero caveats.”

What people confuse

Primary sources and numbers

Prefer primary pages, dated announcements, on-chain-verifiable events, and official docs over recaps and paid wires. Collection sites and social accounts are evidence of what a project claimed, not sources of protocol law. Large numbers appear only when verified with a cited source and an as-of date. Otherwise omit them. Distinguish DOGE amounts from USD conversions. Hype language and trading-meme filler are deleted in review.

Depth by page type stays honest: learn and protocol pages teach the model until a smart non-developer can explain it back, including a comparison to Bitcoin Ordinals without copying Bitcoin byte-for-byte myths. History pages put acts, dates, and tooling first, then cultural scale — apezord-era tooling (February 2023) and later collection culture are both true. Project hubs cover origin, mint mechanics, and shipped work. Infrastructure pages state what a product claims and what it cannot guarantee. Builder pages list public roles and shipped work only: no gossip, no net-worth, no “visionary” fog.

Continuity and caveats

Indexer notebooks are opinions about the chain, not the chain. Markets are best-effort views of those notebooks. Content on-chain is the inscription; a cached JPEG in a UI is not. Readers who need to act get verification steps and spend-risk notes, not advice. Anything that can change is labeled as-of.

Hard bans

• One-paragraph pages, or “coming soon” as the body
• Unsourced superlatives
• Collapsing the protocol with any named collection
• Calling L1 inscriptions smart contracts or ERC-721 on Doge
• Promising permanence without indexer, spend, and reorg caveats
• Financial advice, price prediction, “next 100x,” “best NFT,” celebrity flex lists, marketplace slogans
• Paid-placement language dressed up as documentation

Quality bar

A draft fails if any of the following is true:

• A journalist could not cite it without embarrassment.
• A newcomer still cannot answer what this is and how ownership works.
• The page is interchangeable with a Twitter thread or a sales letter.
• Dates are missing on origin claims.
• The article is shorter than the topic deserves.

Existing copy is not lightly polished. It is rebuilt: keep every verifiable fact, cut hype, add structure, tables, dated anchors, and a real lead. Material corrections are noted on the article. Last-reviewed dates sit on the page for a reason.

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• About this encyclopedia
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• Protocol index
• Terms
• What Doginals are

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