Editorial Principles
Last updated: September 14, 2026
This page describes the rules under which content on narnar is produced. The aim is that a reader can always see where a sentence comes from — someone's experience, research, or an official source.
1. We keep three kinds of information apart
Every claim on a page falls into one of three categories, and the text makes clear which:
- Official source. A consulate, immigration authority, municipality, a university's international office, or a European Commission document. For these claims the source is linked at the end of the page.
- Researched recommendation. Information that recurs in several places but rests on no official document — a typical rent range in a city, for example. Such numbers are given as "typical", "usually", "in the range of", never as settled fact.
- First-hand experience. One student's own process. Everything in questions, answers, stories and community routes is in this category and carries its author's name.
2. No number is invented
No price, duration, statistic or success rate is published without a traceable source. Where there is no clear figure, we say so: "this amount varies by institution, check your own call" is more useful than an invented average.
The same rule governs sample questions: exam questions written by narnar are labelled samples and never presented as past papers.
3. Every page is dated
Country guides carry a last-checked date: when the amounts and steps on that page were last compared against their source. Articles carry an update date under the title.
When a rule or fee changes, the page is updated and the date renewed. An outdated page is not left standing; if it cannot be updated, it is taken down.
4. Corrections policy
When an error is reported:
- The claim is compared against its source.
- If the error is confirmed, the page is corrected and the check date renewed.
- If the error is of a kind that changes a reader's decision — a wrong fee, a wrong order of steps, a wrong deadline — the correction is noted on the page.
Report to: [email protected]
5. Community content
Questions, answers, stories and user routes belong to their authors. narnar does not guarantee their accuracy, and every page says so.
Instead of pre-publication moderation, two mechanisms work: accepting the community guidelines at the moment of posting, and removing rule-breaking content on report or on review. Advertising, copied text, personal data and abuse are removed.
6. Advertising and partnership independence
- Advertising is visually separate from content and never hidden inside the text.
- Sections containing affiliate links are labelled.
- A provider does not enter a list, or move up it, because it pays a commission. Ordering follows what the student needs at that step.
- If there is something negative to say about a product or service, it is said, partnership or not.
7. Use of AI
AI tools may be used for drafting, editing and translation. The rule is this: no unverified claim is published. Every sentence containing a fee, a date, a procedure or a legal requirement is checked against its source before publication. Anything an AI produced that cannot be verified is removed from the text.
We ask the same of the community: do not paste AI-generated text as an answer without checking it.
8. What we do not do
- We do not write content for advertising purposes, and we do not publish sponsored articles.
- We do not copy text from other sites; quotations are short and attributed.
- We do not publish personal data, and we remove it from user content when we find it.
- We do not give legal, financial or immigration advice. Nothing on the site should be read as such.
Questions or objections about these principles: [email protected]