Editorial standards
This Site Published a Great Many Numbers It Could Not Support
An editorial standards page that claims rigour on a site full of invented figures is worse than no page at all. So this one starts with what went wrong, states the rule that replaced it, and shows where the corrections are recorded.
- One rule
- No source, no publish
- Per section
- Corrections recorded in place
- Deleted
- Not rescaled — see why below
- On request
- Anything we assert
Quick answer
The rule is that a figure needs a source or it does not appear. Where a figure was removed, the section says so and says what it used to claim — because a silent deletion is indistinguishable from never having lied.
- Unsourced figures were deleted rather than adjusted. Rescaling an invented number makes a new one.
- Prices come from the group’s published book; regulatory names come from the instruments themselves.
- Where two of our own pages disagreed, both are named and the discrepancy is flagged.
The editor content still carries the old claims
These pages render from a wording layer, not from the WordPress editor body. The original editor content is untouched and still contains every retired figure — the invented listings, the yield tables, the named shipyards, the press claims. Until it is cleared, anyone reading the editor rather than the site will find the old numbers. That is a deliberate state so nothing was destroyed before the client reviewed it, and it needs closing.
Five rules
How a Figure Gets Onto This Site
In this order. Most of what was removed failed at the first rule.
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Source or silence
A number needs a place it came from
Asking prices come from the group’s published brokerage book. Charter rates and yields come from the operating company’s own published figures. Regulatory names come from the instruments. Anything with no traceable origin does not go up, however plausible it reads.
This is the rule that removed roughly a hundred figures.
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Delete, do not rescale
An invented figure cannot be corrected by adjusting it
When the real prices turned out to be a third of the published ones, every figure derived from the old prices — operating costs, refit reserves, capital schedules, loan terms — became unsupported rather than merely wrong. Scaling them to the new prices would have produced a second set of inventions. They were removed.
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Name the conflict
Where our own pages disagreed, both are cited
One vessel’s specification sheet says 27 metres and its own prose says 38. One page quoted the Komodo park fee twice with different numbers. Five different Komodo fees appeared across four pages. Each is flagged where it appears rather than quietly resolved in our favour.
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No borrowed credibility
We do not name a third party as an endorser
No conservation NGO, government body, hotel group or publication is named as a partner, member or source of coverage without its agreement. Twenty-two organisations and twelve publications came off this site under that rule.
A regulator issues licences. It does not partner with a brokerage.
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Invite the check
Prefer a number the reader can verify
A registration number can be checked; a sentence saying we are registered cannot. Where a claim is about us, the page asks you to request the evidence rather than asserting it.
What we do and do not have
The Sourcing, Stated Plainly
So a reader knows which parts of this site are load-bearing and which are still open.
- Sourced
Vessel prices and specifications
Transcribed from the group’s published brokerage listings — asking price, length, beam, cabins, guests, engine and water capacity per hull.
Group brokerage book
- Sourced
Charter rate and indicative yield
Published by the operating company. The yield is stated as indicative and never guaranteed, because that is how it is published.
Operating company
- Sourced
The build process and classification
Five stages from design to handover, Bulukumba as the build location, sustainably sourced teak and ironwood, and BKI classification.
Group construction service
- Verified
Regulatory instruments
PT PMA, NIB, KBLI, SIUPAL, Grosse Akta, Surat Ukur, KSOP, Buku Pelaut, SPB, STCW, SOLAS. Real instruments with real issuing bodies.
Public record
- Verified
The UNESCO inscription
Date, session, location, element title and the excerpted text, plus the sibling Indonesian entries and their years.
UNESCO
- Open
Permit and park fees
Deliberately absent. Tariffs are revised and the previous figures contradicted each other. Confirmed per season by the desk instead.
Ask before each season
- Open
Operating costs and crew pay
Removed rather than estimated. Quoted per named vessel and calendar by the desk.
Ask per vessel
- Open
Our own registrations and memberships
Stated as available on request rather than asserted. Includes the industry membership the site footer still carries from the previous build.
Ask for numbers
- Open
Western yacht comparisons
The comparison table on the vessel-format page carries an unsourced column, labelled as such on the page itself.
Flagged in place
The rule
Where a figure was removed, the section says what it used to claim. A silent deletion is indistinguishable from never having published it.
Those notes live in the wording layer beside the copy they replaced, so the next person to edit a section sees what was there before they reinstate it.
Also in this silo
How We Work
Corrections
Tell Us What Is Still Wrong
There will be more. If a figure on this site looks unsupported, say so and it will either get a source attached or come off — and the section will record which.
Or call +62 811-3941-4563
- Corrections recorded in the section they affect
- No figure published without a traceable source
- Anything we assert about ourselves, evidenced on request