What you can hold us to
Everything published on yeknava.site takes the same route from idea to page. This document explains that route so you can judge our work fairly.
Standards
The route every article on yeknava.site takes from idea to publication, and what we refuse to publish.
Everything published on yeknava.site takes the same route from idea to page. This document explains that route so you can judge our work fairly.
We earn from some outbound links. That pays for hosting and research time, and it does not decide the verdict of any page.
We have never taken a criticism down because somebody asked, and the asking tends to tell readers more than the original complaint did.
We treat dates as facts, not decoration. Refreshing a page to look current without changing its substance is a small lie we would rather not tell, so we do not touch the date unless the content genuinely moved.
You can always see who wrote a page and what else they have put their name to. That traceability is deliberate, and it is why nothing here goes out unsigned.
Darius Farahani, Music editor. Darius grew up with Persian classical music at home and video game soundtracks on his headphones. He edits Yek Nava and writes about how music shapes the way we remember games.
Elodie Marchand, Game music writer. Elodie plays rhythm games far more than is healthy and studied composition at evening classes. She writes about game composers, rhythm and the craft of interactive music.
Kwabena Ostrowski, Audio and listening writer. Kwabena repaired hi-fi equipment before he started writing. He covers headphones, playlists and the practical side of listening, with a dislike of marketing specs.
What gets written is decided by demand, not by a schedule. A question that keeps arriving, from readers or from our own work, becomes a page. A clever keyword with no real question behind it does not.
The writer starts by getting everything down, then goes back and marks anything they could not defend if pushed. Those marks are resolved one by one, against a source or from experience, and whatever cannot be resolved is deleted rather than softened. A second reader then goes looking only for false certainty.
Send the page and the problem to [email protected]. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.