Editorial Policy

Last updated: October 19, 2026

This page explains how the articles on Real Wuhan are produced. It covers who writes them, what gets checked before publishing, and what happens when something turns out to be wrong.

Who writes this site

One person. I’m Raymond Dang, and I’ve lived in Wuhan since 2006. Every article here is written by me.

This is not a news organisation. There is no editorial board, no staff writers, and no freelance contributors. That has one advantage and one limitation, and both are worth stating plainly. The advantage is that nothing gets published that I can’t personally stand behind. The limitation is that this is one person’s view of a city of nearly 14 million people, and it is not the last word on anything.

If you want to know more about who I am and why this site exists, the About page has the long version.

How an article gets written

Most articles start from something I did. A breakfast stall I ate at, a bus route I took, a temple I walked up to on a Saturday. The first draft is what I noticed.

Then the checking starts, because what I noticed is not enough on its own:

Names, addresses, and Chinese characters get confirmed against maps, signage, or official listings before they go in.
Opening hours, ticket prices, and holiday closures get checked against the venue or operator where I can find it, since these change more often than anything else on a travel site.
Historical dates and figures get traced back to a source rather than repeated from memory.
Anything I can’t verify gets left out, softened to what I do know, or written down as uncertain.

Some articles lean on public data. When a claim depends on a statistic rather than my own observation, the source is named in the text, usually a municipal statistics bulletin or a cultural institution’s own published material.

What I won’t do

Invent a venue. If I have not been somewhere, I don’t describe it as though I have.
Invent a price. Prices in the articles are prices at the time of writing, not guesses.
Borrow other people’s experiences. I don’t write about what someone else ate or saw as if I were there.
Pad an article to hit a length. Articles here run as long as the subject supports and stop.

Corrections

If you find something wrong, please email me at showtime4ever@126.com. The Contact page has more detail.

What happens next:

I check the claim against the source.
If it’s wrong, I fix it in the article itself. I don’t quietly delete the passage or replace the page.
The revision date at the top of the article changes to reflect the edit.

Corrections are welcome and disagreements are fine. A reader telling me that a noodle shop moved across the street is doing this site a favour.

Updates and revision dates

Articles get revised after publication. Businesses close, metro lines extend, festivals shift dates, and a guide that was accurate in August can be misleading by the following spring.

Each article carries two dates. The publication date is when it first went up; the revision date, shown as “Updated”, appears when the article has changed since. Both are visible under the title, so you can tell at a glance whether what you’re reading has been revisited or has sat untouched since the day it went up.

Photographs

Photographs on this site are taken by me unless the caption says otherwise. There is no stock photography here, and an image that arrives carrying an AI-generation watermark does not get published.

If a photograph ever comes from another source, it will be credited in the caption and used with permission.

Advertising and independence

This site is supported by display advertising served through Google AdSense when it is enabled. See the Privacy Policy for how ad cookies work.

What that does not mean:

No sponsored articles. No business has paid for an article, a mention, or a ranking on this site.
No affiliate links. There are currently no affiliate links on this site. Hotel and ticket booking services are mentioned as recommendations only, and they don’t pay for it.
No gifted stays or complimentary meals written up in exchange for coverage.
No advertiser input. Advertisers have no say in what gets written, and no sight of it before publication.

If any of this changes, this page changes first, and the date at the top changes with it.

Using the content

You’re welcome to read, link, and quote brief excerpts with attribution. The Terms of Service set out what is and isn’t allowed in full.

Questions

If you have a question about how something here was researched or written, ask. If an article doesn’t explain where a figure came from, that’s a fair thing to flag, and I’ll either point you to the source or correct the article.