Editorial standards and corrections

Our commitment

Useful first, honest about limits.

We aim to make each Journal article understandable, checkable and useful even when it contains no product link. We distinguish object-level facts, scholarly interpretations and our own inferences. Uncertainty, contested attribution and gaps in the surviving record should remain visible when they affect the conclusion.

This is a description of GeMarkt's internal publishing practice. It is not a claim that every article has received external academic peer review, and it is not legal advice.

Before publication

The checks follow the claim and the object.

New learning articles begin as drafts. Before publication, the working process checks the article's scope, factual claims, links, accessibility and technical output. For object-led art history, names, dates, materials, dimensions, locations, provenance and attribution are checked against the relevant object records.

Images have a separate source-and-rights check. The age or public-domain status of an artwork does not, by itself, settle the status of a particular photograph or scan. Published image records should retain the object page, file source, rights statement, credit line and review date. If a material uncertainty remains, the item should stay a draft or the limitation should be stated on the page.

Evidence

Our source hierarchy

1. Object and primary records. Museum collection pages, archive or excavation records, library catalogues, official documents and the physical or visual evidence of the work itself.
2. Specialist scholarship. Catalogue raisonnés, scholarly books, peer-reviewed articles, exhibition catalogues, and publications from universities, museums and research institutes.
3. Context and discovery sources. Reputable reference material may help locate a question or lead, but important claims are traced back to a stronger, checkable source wherever possible.
4. Commercial sources. A seller, platform or manufacturer may be the right primary source for its own current price, product or policy. It is not treated as authority for an unrelated historical claim.

Sources can disagree. We do not resolve that by counting links: we consider proximity to the object, relevant expertise, evidence, date and scope, then state disagreement when it matters.

Tools and responsibility

AI is not a source.

AI-assisted tools may help find research leads, test structure, surface a possible counterargument or support drafting. Their output is not evidence, a citation or a substitute for looking at the work. Factual claims and image-rights statements must be checked against identifiable sources.

Publication remains controlled by GeMarkt's human-set rules and authorisation. Model confidence cannot clear a source, rights or uncertainty gate, and an automated step cannot turn unresolved material into a publishable claim. GeMarkt remains responsible for what appears under its name and can revise, hold or remove it.

Accountability

What our bylines and review labels mean

Richer Journal chapters identify GeMarkt Editorial for writing and editorial stewardship and GeMarkt Research Review for the internal source, rights and research-review stage. These are GeMarkt responsibility labels, not named academic credentials and not a claim of independent external review.

Some older articles are still being moved into the fuller Journal format and may not yet display the complete author, review-date and revision panel. The absence of that panel should not be read as a credential we have not shown.

Living record

Corrections and revisions

We review a reported error against the article's cited evidence and, where needed, the underlying object or archive record. A confirmed factual error should be corrected. A substantive change to an argument, attribution, date, source or rights conclusion should also be reflected in the page's updated or reviewed information; richer chapters may include a specific revision note.

Minor spelling, formatting and broken-link repairs may not receive a separate public note. Not every older article yet has a full visible change history, so an updated date must not be read as a complete line-by-line archive of every edit.

Editorial and commerce

GeMarkt is both publisher and seller.

The Journal and GeMarkt's art catalogue belong to the same business. An article may link to a GeMarkt collection, restoration, wallpaper, tool or product when that route is useful. If a reader buys a GeMarkt product, GeMarkt can benefit financially. Those first-party links are commercial pathways, not independent product endorsements and not evidence for an editorial claim.

Purchases currently complete through Etsy, which is GeMarkt's temporary checkout and order rail. Current price, availability, options, delivery and transaction terms are shown at the destination. An Etsy listing or platform page may be a primary source for its own current terms, but it does not determine the Journal's art-historical conclusions.