Editorial standards

How we write

Every guide on boardrepair.me follows this process:

1. Schematic ingestion. We start from a published board schematic and boardview, sourced legally from ZXW, WUXINJI, Borneo, or JCID. We never host proprietary schematics — pages list where you can buy them.
2. Draft assistance. We use Claude (Anthropic) to draft the structural skeleton — boot sequence, rail tree, common failure points based on community knowledge. The draft is a starting point, not the published article.
3. Bench validation. Every guide is reviewed by a working board-level technician — voltage rails are measured on a real bench, designators verified against the actual schematic, photographs taken under microscope where relevant.
4. Sign-off. A guide is only published once it carries a Validated by Joe on YYYY-MM-DD tag visible at the top of the page.
5. Errata. Found an error? Open an issue at https://github.com/boardrepairme/boardrepair.me/issues. We fix and re-version within 7 days.

What this means

• We do not auto-publish AI-only content. Until validation is complete, a banner says so and the page is excluded from the canonical sitemap.
• We do not host proprietary schematics — we tell you where to source them legally.
• We do not invent values. If a voltage hasn't been bench-measured, the guide says so.
• We sign every page.

Why we changed

Earlier versions of this site published AI-drafted content automatically. That produced volume but eroded trust — some guides contained factual errors a working technician would catch immediately (e.g. confusing T2 and T1, miscounting RAM, treating Apple internal codenames as product names).

As of May 2026, the auto-publish pipeline is paused. Every guide that was published before that date is being re-verified at the bench — pages still pending verification show the banner described above, and you should treat any unverified measurement as preliminary.