How to read, check and correct our guides
Sowghati helps readers understand Iranian souvenirs and crafts, choose gifts and ask better buying questions. Here is what our guides can establish, where their limits lie, and how to send a useful correction when something is wrong.
Practical guidance, not a product guarantee
Each guide addresses a particular decision: matching a gift to its recipient, checking a craft before buying, or protecting it on the journey home. A city’s reputation does not authenticate every item sold there. Describing a craft tradition is not an endorsement of a shop, and a checklist cannot replace inspecting the actual item and agreeing the order details.
Sowghati is not currently an operating shop or an authenticity-certification service. Where evidence cannot support a firm conclusion, the guide should say so. Our aim is to make the next question clearer, not to turn uncertainty into a confident purchasing promise.
Read the source in the context of the claim
Identifiable heritage institutions, museums, registration documents and specialist references take priority for historical, cultural and technical claims. Articles list source titles, publishers and links so you can examine that context. A heritage listing may establish cultural significance; it does not certify the quality of a particular souvenir or the reliability of a present-day seller.
Buying comparisons and packing checklists can be editorial synthesis rather than quotations from a source. A suggested walk is not evidence of an on-the-ground visit. First-hand purchases, interviews, observations and quotations must not be invented. A reference should support the claim being made, not merely mention the same city or product.
An update date is not a live verification stamp
The article’s update date belongs to its content record. Each reference has a separate recorded access date. Neither date, by itself, proves that a link works today or that every detail has recently been checked. A site-wide layout change should not make older reporting appear newly researched.
Visitor arrangements, web addresses, prices and transport conditions can change. Check time-sensitive details with the responsible institution or current provider before relying on them. A moved or unavailable reference needs investigation; leaving a citation visible does not establish its present availability. We do not infer current facts from an old access date.
Editorial voices and AI-assisted production
Narges and Kaveh identify two editorial perspectives: Narges focuses on places, people and the cultural meaning of gifts; Kaveh focuses on selection, quality, authenticity questions and packing. These names alone are not verified professional biographies, qualifications or proof of a visit. Sowghati is responsible for publishing the guides.
This project uses AI-assisted writing, localization and automated checks. Those tools can make mistakes. A successful technical check does not establish factual accuracy or substitute for human experience. Persian, English and Arabic guides should serve their respective readers, with useful explanations rather than word-for-word replacements or empty translated pages.
Paid placement must be distinguishable
Advertising and sponsored material must be clearly labelled. Paying for a placement is not an authenticity certificate, a product ranking or a sales guarantee. Independent guidance must not quietly become a paid recommendation.
Our buying questions are not a list of guaranteed suppliers. If a future commercial relationship affects a product recommendation, that relationship needs to be clear where readers encounter it. A reader should be able to distinguish what a source establishes, what the editorial guide suggests and what an advertiser claims.
Send a correction we can investigate
Include the exact article URL, the section or sentence at issue, a short explanation and, where possible, a reliable supporting source with its date. For a broken reference, include the destination URL and when you encountered the problem. Specific evidence helps distinguish an error from a changed circumstance or a matter of taste.
The correction process is to assess the claim and evidence, amend the affected text and reference if confirmed, and check whether the same issue affects the other language versions. A material correction should carry a clear explanatory note, not just an unexplained date change. Sending a report does not automatically validate its claim or establish a response deadline.