Editorial Policy and Source Standards

Our editorial standard is to prefer primary regulatory material over launch marketing, investor commentary or affiliate-site speculation. The site is built as a status and regulatory resource first, not as a bonus-ranking or signup funnel.

Sourcing hierarchy

1. Primary sources such as AGLC pages, AGLC PDFs, Alberta legislation and Alberta government publications.
2. Direct operator statements that are clearly dated and attributable.
3. Industry reporting used only when it helps explain the public record or fills in context that is explicitly labelled as unconfirmed.

How we describe status

• Listed means an operator or brand appeared in the public material we reviewed.
• Pending means the status was discussed but not fully confirmed in the public listing we used.
• Live means the operator was already taking legal play in Alberta or was clearly live in the province.
• Unknown means we do not have enough evidence to make a stronger claim.

Who, how and why

• Who: launch-critical pages are written and updated by Mariia Magus, with publication review by the Alberta iGaming Rules Editorial Desk.
• How: factual claims are checked against cited source material; AI output is never used as a source.
• Why: pages must help readers verify legal/status claims, understand uncertainty or find safer-gambling resources.

AI-assisted drafting

AI tools may be used to draft outlines, summarize internal notes, normalize tables or check consistency. Human review is required before publication, and any status claim must be traceable to a cited source. We do not publish fake author profiles, fake reviews or invented first-hand testing.

Publishability gate

A page should remain unpublished, noindexed or merged into a stronger page if it only repeats public sources without adding useful context.

• Operator pages must include registry wording, live-status caveats, what is known, what is unknown and player verification checks.
• Commercial-intent pages must not rank operators by bonus size before there is a reviewed methodology and clear disclosure.
• News or launch updates must be updated, merged or noindexed when the information becomes stale.

Update practices

Every key page includes a last-checked date and an update log. If a source changes, we update the page copy rather than silently replacing it. When uncertainty remains, we leave it visible instead of smoothing it away.

Independence

Editorial decisions are made to improve accuracy and reader clarity. We do not publish operator pages as promotional landing pages. When a fact cannot be pinned to an official or attributable source, we say so.