Our job is to help a reader understand who shares a calendar date and why the people or events connected to that date are notable. A useful page should do more than repeat a date: it should identify the person or event clearly, supply relevant context, make the source trail visible, and distinguish fact from editorial judgment.

Birth dates, biographical details, and historical records begin with public knowledge sources such as Wikidata and Wikipedia. Where available, records also use institutional, official, archival, news, awards, library, or subject-specific sources. Source links on profiles and stories are there so readers can inspect the underlying material. We summarize and organize sources in our own words; a source link is not an endorsement of every claim on the source page.

Not every person with a public record is equally useful in a short daily edition. The site considers broad recognition, the strength and completeness of the record, relevance across fields and eras, and the need for a varied edition. Rankings are discovery tools, not objective measures of human worth. Advertising, payment, and commercial relationships do not buy a place or a higher position in the birthday archive.

The Birthday Edit publishes rankings, explainers, comparisons, and cultural commentary. Those stories should have a clear point of view, add analysis beyond the source material, identify the basis for factual claims, and include a source list when outside reporting or research materially supports the article. Opinion and prediction are presented as editorial judgment, not as settled fact.

Automated tools may help collect, normalize, compare, or draft material across a large calendar archive. They do not remove the need for review. Before feature stories are published, names, dates, numerical claims, source links, and the fit between headline and article are checked. Archive data is also subject to quality checks for missing sources, duplicate records, broken text, and conflicting dates. When a reliable source disagrees with the site, the record should be reviewed rather than silently defended.

Images may come from Wikimedia projects, licensed or public-domain collections, original site artwork, or generated editorial artwork. Story art is labeled when it is generated. An image is used to illustrate the subject; it should not imply that the pictured person or organization endorses this site.

Readers can report a wrong date, identity mix-up, outdated biography, broken source, image issue, or misleading passage. Please include the page URL, the specific claim, and a reliable source that supports the correction. We review the underlying record and update the page when the evidence warrants it. Material corrections to editorial stories may be noted on the article.

Advertising helps keep the site available without a subscription. Ads are separated from editorial content and labeled where manual placements appear. Advertisers do not review, approve, or determine archive rankings or story conclusions. Sponsored material, if the site publishes any in the future, will be clearly identified.