Editorial Policy

Every claim about a specific place — its name, location, category, classification, and identifying details — is traceable to one of the following sources:

• A direct visit to the place by a member of the editorial team.
• A documented source we hold internally (an attraction description file, a municipal tourism document, an official listing).
• The place's own published material (its website, its Facebook page, its Google Maps listing).
• A community contribution that has been moderated and cross-checked against at least one of the above.

We do not invent sensory details, fabricate prices, or describe experiences we have not had or verified. Where the catalogue lacks specific information — typical fee, opening hours, current ferry schedule — the page either omits the field or marks it with a “verify before visiting” cue.

Many place pages display a Google rating and review count alongside a link to that place's full Google Maps reviews. Important things to understand about that surface:

• We do not own the reviews. They are written by Google users and stored by Google. We surface a count and a link.
• The rating and count are pulled through the official Google Places API and refreshed on a periodic schedule. They reflect Google's state at the time of the last refresh, not necessarily right now.
• Clicking through to read reviews takes you to Google's own surface, where authorship is visible per Google's product. We do not republish review text on this site.

Travel details in a small province change without notice. A tricycle fare goes up. A resort closes for the rainy season. A ferry schedule shifts. Rather than pretend our snapshot is authoritative, we flag the categories of information that are most likely to drift:

• Entrance fees, rental rates, transport fares.
• Opening hours and seasonal closures.
• Ferry and bus schedules.
• Phone numbers and direct contact details.

These appear with a “verify before visiting” or “confirm before travel” cue on the place page so a traveler knows to call ahead or check on arrival. Treat the information on this site as a starting point for planning — not as the final authority on something that changed yesterday.

When a place closes — permanently or for an extended period — we mark it as such rather than silently delete the page. Removing the URL would break links from other sites and search engines that have already indexed it. Instead, the page stays up with a visible closure banner, the place is removed from recommendation surfaces (random picker, “more in this municipality”, map markers), and the structured data is updated to indicate it is no longer recommended.

Every place page has two actions tied to this:

• Suggest an edit — for factual fixes (wrong name, wrong municipality, wrong category, missing detail). Submissions go into a moderation queue and the page is updated once the edit is verified.
• Report — for places that have closed, changed location, or should no longer appear in recommendations. We treat closure reports as priority and will visibly mark the page within the same review cycle.

Comments left on individual place pages are moderated before they appear publicly. We do this to keep the site readable and to avoid surfacing reviews that look like Google reviews but aren't. If you want to leave a public review of a place's service or quality, the right surface is Google Maps — that is what the “See Google reviews” link on every relevant page points at.

Place pages are not on a fixed re-review schedule — that would be dishonest to claim, because we are a small team in a small province. What actually happens:

• Google ratings and review counts are refreshed on a periodic automated schedule.
• Closure reports and edit suggestions trigger an immediate review of the affected page.
• Pages with the highest traffic are spot-checked opportunistically when a member of the editorial team is in the area.

Marinduque Guide does not currently run affiliate links, sponsored placements, or paid rankings. If that ever changes, this section is where the disclosure will appear, and the affected pages will carry an inline disclosure as well.

We will note material changes to this policy at the top of this page when they happen. Minor edits — clarifying language, fixing a typo, adding an example — go in without a notice.