Editorial Policy: How We Research and Write Our Guides
How we identify real locations, what we will and will not publish, how we label confidence, and how you reach us to correct something we got wrong.
This page exists because a great deal of the location content on the internet about this city is confidently wrong. Ours is not always right either, and this is how we try to be as close to right as we can get, and how you can hold us to it.
Who writes this site
Every guide, every location description, every itinerary on this site is written and edited by us. We do not publish generated content as our own voice, and we do not publish guest posts. Our writers have first-hand knowledge of the routes they describe, and every guide page is walked or driven by a member of the team before publication.
Nothing goes live without a second member of the team reading it. There are no exceptions to that rule, because a policy with exceptions is not a policy.
How we research a real-world location
- Primary sources first. We start from the publisher's own material: official trailers, official pages, official descriptions. If a claim can be checked against the source, it is checked against the source.
- Independence from fan wikis. We use community mapping as a lead, not as a citation. Where a wiki is the only source for a claim, we say the match is a community identification.
- Physical verification. Every location we list has been visited by us, or by a named contractor who did, and we record the visit. The coordinates on a location page are the coordinates of the place we stood.
- Confidence labels. We label every location match with one of four ratings, and the label describes the evidence rather than our enthusiasm.
| Label | What it means |
|---|---|
| Official naming | The publisher uses the real name in their own material |
| Strong | Three or more independent lines of evidence agree |
| Community match | One or two good lines of evidence, no official confirmation |
| Community, weak | A single object, matched on shape and position only |
How we reference games and trademarks
We write about real places that appear in popular games. That is nominative use: identifying the real location a fictional place is based on. We do it under a strict and self-imposed set of rules.
- Editorial pages may name the game. On articles in the blog, including titles, headings and body text, we name the game and its characters where it is necessary to identify what we are talking about.
- Commercial pages do not. Tour pages, location pages and our navigation never use a game or publisher trademark in the title, the heading, the meta description or the structured data. Our commercial pages describe Miami, Florida, and nothing else.
- No game assets. We use no logos, no character art, no screenshots, no map images and no audio from any game. Every image on this site is our own photography of a real place.
- No implied endorsement. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, licensed by or sponsored by any publisher, and every article that discusses a game carries a disclaimer saying so.
- No implication of official source. We never present a community identification as though it were confirmed by the publisher.
Why we draw the line where we do
Naming a game in an article about real locations is describing it. Putting a game's name on a page whose purpose is to sell a tour is using it as a marketing hook for something that has nothing to do with the game. The first is fair use in the ordinary sense; the second is the thing publishers and their legal teams object to, and they are right to.
How we handle dates and prices
Prices, timetables and schedules change. Every price on this site is a current price, and we review the tour pages monthly and whenever a cost changes. Where a price may move, we say so on the page rather than burying it in the terms.
Release dates and other announcements are always attributed to the publisher and dated. We do not speculate about unannounced things, and where we describe what has not been announced, we say so plainly.
Corrections
If we get something wrong, we fix it and we say that we fixed it. Corrections are made on the page where the error appeared, with a dated note at the bottom of the article, and material errors are noted in the article's own footer.
- Send us the URL and what is wrong through our contact page.
- We aim to acknowledge corrections within two business days.
- We correct the page, not just the reply to your email.
- If we got a location wrong and someone travelled to it based on our page, we will help with the practical consequences.
What we will not publish
- Unverified location claims presented as confirmed.
- Anything about a person's private life, or identifying information about private individuals.
- Theories presented as fact about unannounced games or features.
- Reposts of other publishers' analysis in our own voice.
- Reviews of a business we have a commercial relationship with, without disclosing the relationship.
Policy changes and contact
This policy is reviewed whenever we change how we work, and the date at the top of the page is the date it was last changed. If you think we have broken our own rules, tell us through our contact page, and we will look at it.
Frequently asked questions
Who writes the content on Leonida Tours?
We do. Every guide and article is written and edited by our own team, verified against primary sources where they exist, and reviewed by a second member of the team before publication.
How do you decide if a location match is reliable?
By the number of independent lines of evidence. We label every location Official naming, Strong, Community match or Community, weak, and the label describes the evidence rather than our confidence.
Why do some pages not mention the game at all?
Because a page whose purpose is to sell a tour should not carry a game trademark as a marketing hook. Editorial articles name the game where naming it is necessary; commercial pages describe Miami and nothing else.
Do you use any images from the games?
No. There are no logos, screenshots, character art or map images from any game anywhere on this site. Every image is our own photography of a real place in South Florida.
How do I report an error?
Message us through our contact page with the page URL and what is incorrect. We acknowledge corrections within two business days, fix the page itself, and leave a dated correction note on articles.
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