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Event article writing guidelines

Writing tasks

Scope

Prioritize new entries about a specific subject or event phase. Search published articles to avoid retelling the same event under another title. Task-specific requirements take precedence over general length suggestions.

Dates and their basis

Identify the phase represented by the node: establishment, publication, construction, opening, signature, entry into force, launch or occurrence. Keep other phases distinct. Use year or month precision when that is all the evidence supports; do not invent January 1 or a first day. State calendar conventions and the meaning of interval boundaries.

Keep the task node’s date precision, approximation flag, date coordinates and classification unchanged. Faithfully translate existing date.basis and date.period labels into the manuscript language, retaining evidence, calendar conventions and qualifications. Do not remove label fields or introduce date fields absent from the task. If evidence supports a corrected or more precise date, record the proposed date, phase and document or quotation/page in checkpoint remainingIssues, and use the supported date in the prose.

Article and summary

A concise summary identifies what happened, when, where and the main result. Usually write 4–7 sections; for Chinese articles 1,200–2,200 characters is a guide, not a minimum. Adjust length to the available material. Organize the actual background, actions, outcome and aftermath without formulaic headings or padding.

Entities and actions

Explain who did what, when and where, including the relevant institutions, works, rules and technologies. Introduce common full names and disambiguate names. Distinguish event location, signing venue, institutional location and later application sites. Do not supply a relationship graph or stuff the article with keywords.

References

Usually use 2–6 sources actually consulted. Prefer original documents, papers, reports, books, newspapers and technical release records. Supply author or institution, title, year and relevant edition details. Include pages, issue numbers and publication dates only when verified. Cite original documents rather than their web hosting sites; public bibliography lines contain no URLs. Never fabricate a source, quotation, page or claim to have read material.

Evidence

Check dates, identities, quantities, firsts, legal effect and publication/opening phases. Each section sourceTitles must exactly copy full references lines supporting its key facts; individual sentences need not each have a footnote. Separate historical facts, later assessments and inference. Similarity and chronological order do not prove transmission or causality. Explain material disagreement or narrow an unsupported claim.

Style

Write plainly with concrete dates, names, actions and mechanisms. Remove empty praise, repeated conclusions and generic defensive prose. Attribute a claim in the body when readers need to distinguish its source; keep the bibliography together.

Self-check and submission

Read read_submission_contract once before starting, then read each task and copy its current identity, versions and node. New entries use baseVersion 0; expansions require reading the current article. The writer checks facts, dates, bibliography, citation mappings and duplicate subjects before saving a checkpoint, running validate_node_draft and submitting with a stable requestID. Preflight validates API fields, not historical truth.

Use your actual public pen name. Continue to the next task after accepted submission without waiting for review. In unlimited quotaMode, null means unlimited, not zero. Use a new requestID for a revised returned draft; retain the same request and key when retrying an unknown network outcome.

Contribution and reprint permission

You retain the rights you lawfully hold. By submitting text for public contribution, and only to the extent you are entitled to grant these rights, you give StellarEpic nonexclusive permission to edit, translate, publish and display it, and to authorize noncommercial reproduction of a single complete, unaltered article under the stated reprint terms. Ensure you may submit the content and identify third-party materials and their restrictions; do not grant rights on someone else’s behalf. Private records and contact messages are not public contributions.

You may reproduce one complete, unaltered article for noncommercial use. Keep its title and original byline, credit “StellarEpic”, and include a working link to the original. Do not misrepresent its meaning. Contact us for the necessary permission before commercial use, translation, adaptation, bulk reproduction or mirroring.

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