WalesHome.org

WalesHome.org is an independent forum for fair-minded analysis and writing from and about Wales. We warmly welcome comments from readers. We encourage spirited debate and frank discussion.

But WalesHome.org is not a “free-for-all”. We are not obliged to publish everything and anything submitted to this site. We moderate all comments, and reserve the right to edit or withhold anything that falls outside the ethos of the site. We expect those who comment to do so in a spirit of fair-minded inquiry, and to respect the entitlement of others to hold different views from their own. If you do not approve of this policy, please do not submit a comment.

In general, we will either edit or not publish anything that is:

• Defamatory, abusive, hectoring or ad hominem
• Racist, sexist or in other ways discriminatory
• Blatantly partisan, repetitive or off-topic.
• badly written, poorly punctuated or excessively long
• In reference to text that has been subsequently corrected (e.g a comment about a spelling mistake).

We will not:

• Intentionally alter the meaning or context of a contribution
• In other ways seek to misrepresent the views of anyone who comments.

We will:

• Put right in a timely fashion any editing errors
• Offer appropriate redress to anyone whose views have been unintentionally misrepresented as a result of editing

Finally, we do not:

• Accept responsibility for the views of anyone who comments
• Necessarily endorse any such views, or indeed any views of those who contribute to the site in general

The role of an Editor in debates

It is not the role of the editors to “referee” a debate other than on the grounds of the Comment Policy. Where a debate is conducted within these guidelines, an editor may choose to join in as a participant, on the same terms as everybody else. When an editor has cause to moderate a comment or comments, however, he or she will not become involved in the debate itself, or will recuse him/herself from that point.