Why this page exists
Last updated: October 2026.
Textoria asks readers to trust two kinds of output: tools that measure and modify their documents, and guides that make claims about writing. Trust deserves a description of how the work is actually done. This page explains how tools are tested, how articles are produced and reviewed, how errors are handled, what we refuse to publish, and exactly how software assistance fits into our process. It is the policy we hold ourselves to, written so you can hold us to it too.
Tools are tested on real documents before they ship
Every tool on Textoria is tested on real documents before publication, and "real" is the operative word. Not idealized sample strings. Student essays with inconsistent spacing. Contracts exported from PDF with the hyphenation mangled. A CSV dump of names where half the rows carry a trailing tab. Markdown files with nesting that would make a parser weep. If a tool breaks on a real document, we fix the tool before the page goes live, and if it cannot be fixed, the page says what the tool fails at.
The testing continues after launch. When a reader reports a document that defeated a tool, which our contact page actively invites, the report becomes a test case.
Every tool page documents its own limits
The rule that governs the site: document the limits, on the page where they matter. The grammar checker is rule-based; it catches common patterns but does not understand meaning, and its page says so. The spelling checker runs against a built-in dictionary of common English words, so proper nouns and specialist vocabulary draw flags; its page says so. The plagiarism checker compares text only against sources the user supplies, with no web index and no database of student papers; its page says so in a sentence designed to be impossible to miss.
A tool that overpromises is worse than no tool, because it converts a small task into false confidence. We would rather a visitor read an honest limitation and choose another service than paste a dissertation into a checker whose reach they misunderstood.
Articles are written, reviewed, and updated by people
The guides are written by the Textoria editorial team, a small independent group of writers and editors. Every article is reviewed by at least one other editor before publication, and reviewed again whenever it is wrong. When a fact changes or an error is found, the article is updated in place and the page notes what changed and when.
The quality bar is the one in our own style guide, and it is not a secret. Articles open with something concrete rather than a dictionary definition. Claims are demonstrated with real example sentences, because advice without an example is filler. Any sentence that exists only to fill space gets cut. If a section cannot be supported with a specific example, the section does not run.
No fabricated statistics or invented studies
We do not publish made-up numbers. No imaginary surveys, no "studies show" without a study, no percentages invented to lend authority to a paragraph. When we cite research, we cite real work a reader can look up, such as the Flesch readability formulas first published in the late 1940s, and we describe findings qualitatively when we cannot source an exact figure. A guide built on invented evidence collapses the first time a careful reader checks it, and our readers check.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, email info@textoria.online with the sentence in question and, if you have one, the source that contradicts it. Genuine errors are fixed, the page gains a correction note with the date, and the fix is treated as the process working rather than the site failing. We do not quietly edit articles and hope nobody notices; a corrected page says it was corrected. Disagreements about judgment calls, such as a contested style recommendation, get a reply explaining our reasoning, and sometimes a revised section that presents both sides honestly.
Advertising, sponsorship, and editorial independence
Textoria is free and supported by display advertising through Google AdSense. Advertising pays for the hosting; it does not buy editorial influence. Advertisers do not choose topics, see drafts, approve copy, or receive a favorable mention in return for spending. There are no sponsored articles, no advertorials, no "best grammar checkers" listicles arranged by whoever paid most, and no affiliate program. When a guide mentions another product, it is because the comparison genuinely helps the reader, and the same sentence would stand if that company had never heard of us.
Advertising is kept visually separate from editorial content. The ads are served by Google, not selected by our editors, and the presence of an ad is not an endorsement of the product it shows. If an ad looks misleading or inappropriate, tell us and we will report it.
This separation is also why the site can afford honesty about its own tools. A publication that takes money from the products it reviews cannot document their limits truthfully. Our advertising comes from an ad network, not from the tools we write about, so the limits section of every page stays truthful by construction. The privacy policy and cookie policy describe exactly what the advertising services can see.
How we use software assistance
Honesty about our tools' limits would ring hollow without honesty about our own process, so here it is specifically. We may use software assistance, including AI tools, in producing this site: for research leads, for drafting scaffolds, for generating test cases, for catching the occasional typo in a first draft. No article is published as software output. Every piece on Textoria is written, fact-checked, and edited by humans on the editorial team, who verify claims against sources, test examples by actually running them, and put their editorial judgment behind the final text. Responsibility for every article sits with a person, not a model: when something is wrong, a human corrects it, and the correction note is that accountability made visible.
The same standard applies to tool documentation. Feature descriptions, limitation notes, and examples are checked against the tool's actual behavior, by running the tool, before publication.
Linking policy
We link to sources, references, and other sites when the link helps the reader: the original work behind a readability formula, a well-written explanation of a grammar rule, documentation for a format we convert. We never accept payment for links, never participate in link schemes, and never sell guest posts. Internal links between our own tools and guides exist to connect related work, not to pad metrics. The rule is that every link should earn its place the same way every sentence should.
Contact
The policy inbox is the same as every other: info@textoria.online. If you believe we have fallen short of anything on this page, tell us with specifics. The Textoria editorial team reads everything and typically replies within a few business days.