Do you invent architect or engineer credentials?

No. Pages are attributed to the Metal Coverings Editorial Team unless a named person is added with verifiable public credentials.

Can AI write a page without review?

No. Assisted drafts must be checked against primary sources, and non-human-written pages must include a disclosure.

Editorial Policy | Metal Coverings

Metal Coverings is written as an independent technical publication. Search visibility is treated as a distribution outcome, not as a reason to publish a thin page.

Rainscreen wall build-up used to illustrate assembly-level claims. — Fire, wind, and drainage statements belong to assemblies, not to a photograph of a skin.

Topic selection

A page is commissioned only when it can do a decision job: choose a material, understand a system, specify a performance issue, or compare alternatives. The publication does not generate city pages, color-by-color indexes, or supplier directories.

The living map of that work is the metal wall coverings guide plus the cluster hubs for materials, systems, applications, design and specification, and comparisons.

Sourcing

Primary documents come first: association guidance, manufacturer technical data, standards summaries, and public design guides. Secondary articles may supply context, but they do not replace a primary source for a technical claim.

When a source is used, it should appear on the page in the visible sources list. Schema citations are copied from that visible list. The site does not add Product, Review, or AggregateRating markup.

Authorship and identity

Guides are published by the Metal Coverings Editorial Team. The team synthesizes public technical literature. It does not claim licensed architectural or engineering practice, first-hand laboratory testing, or project credits that the team did not perform.

If a future page names a reviewer, that person must be a real individual and the review date must be recorded.

AI assistance

AI tools may help outline, compress, or compare source notes. They are not evidence. Any page that is not fully human-written must include a disclosure and a content method in its metadata. Fabricated quotations, invented case studies, and unsupported numbers are prohibited.

Fact-checking and corrections

Before publication, editors check names, dates, source URLs, and whether a conclusion is actually in scope for the cited document. After publication, a changed date should mark a real revision. To request a correction, use the contact page and include the URL plus the source you want reviewed.

Update mechanism

Cluster pages should be revisited when manufacturer literature, association guidance, or model-code language that the page relies on changes. Recency is useful for readers and for AI-search citation, but a cosmetic date change without a review is not an update.

Fire, structure, and code language

Performance statements about fire, wind, thermal movement, and structural attachment are assembly claims unless a source is clearly limited to a skin, core, or coating. Guides must not say that metal panels are fireproof. Readers should confirm the complete wall assembly with the manufacturer and the authority having jurisdiction.

Corrections go through the contact page. Identity and limits are on About Metal Coverings.