Editorial Methodology
How the Biblioteca is researched and reviewed
The Bailar Biblioteca is a citation-backed reference on Latin dance — its origins, music, technique, and the people who shaped it. This page explains exactly how each article is produced, sourced, and corrected, so you can judge it on the merits and cite it with confidence.
How an article is made
Every article begins as a draft assembled by a language model from a curated set of references — books, archives, scholarship, and primary reporting on each dance. Drafting from sources, rather than from open-ended generation, is a deliberate design choice: it anchors each claim to material we can point to.
Each draft then passes through a multi-model review stage. Independent models cross-check the draft against its sources, flag claims that are not supported, and score the article for accuracy and completeness. Only drafts that clear that bar are promoted to publication; the rest are revised or held back. We call this the gated-promote pipeline, and its single job is to keep unsourced claims out of the published encyclopedia.
Published articles are living documents. They carry a publication date and a last-updated date, and they are revised as better sources surface or readers report problems.
Sourcing and citations
Articles cite their sources in the text and list them in a References section at the foot of each entry. Where a source is available online, the citation links to it. The goal is that any substantive claim can be traced back to the material it rests on.
We favor reputable, verifiable sources — scholarship, established reference works, primary documents, and recognized journalism. When an article is built on thin sourcing, we say so plainly with a limited-sources note rather than overstating our confidence.
Expert review
Selected articles are reviewed by people with subject-matter expertise in dance history, music, and pedagogy. When an article has been reviewed, it shows a reviewer byline that names the expert and their credentials, and that review is recorded in the article’s structured metadata.
An article without a reviewer byline has still passed the sourcing and multi-model review described above — the byline marks the additional step of a named human expert vouching for the entry.
Corrections policy
We correct errors as quickly as we can confirm them. If you find a mistake — a wrong date, a misattributed move, a misread source — tell us, and we will check it against the sources and fix it where you are right.
Substantive corrections update the article’s last-updated date. We treat accuracy as the product, not an afterthought.
Report a correction: support@bailar.site