Guest Posts: What a Piece for This Guide Would Need
This page sets out the standard for a guest piece on this guide. This site is not taking guest pieces yet. The standard is published so that anyone who might write one knows it in advance.
What a guest piece covers
A guest piece would explain one term or question from a pizza or barbecue menu, such as a cooking method or a cut of meat. It must help a reader order, cook or choose. A piece that promotes one business would not fit.
Every piece would be edited by the site owner before it could appear. No piece would run for payment. Until guest pieces open, this page is a statement of standards, not an invitation.
Where this guide stops
What a piece needs before it is written
The term or question
Name the term or question in one line and say which menu it appears on. Keep it to one subject, because a narrow subject makes a clearer piece.
Your angle and what a reader can check
Say what a reader could confirm alone, such as a definition, a measurement or a published standard. Mark which points are your own experience. Leave out anything that cannot be checked.
Sources, with links to the originals
Link the published original for every fact and every quotation. Name the body that published each source, and keep each source to what it actually says.
Which pieces would be declined
A piece would be declined when it asks for a link to one business, when it is sponsored, or when it makes a claim its writer cannot stand behind. The text beside the picture sets out the standard in full.
A piece on a term or a method would fit. So would a draft that cites its sources, or one that says what it leaves out. A sponsored post would not, and neither would a piece that links one business.
