Our editorial standards are public and on the record.

LVTC editorial content is produced independently of our advertising and partnership relationships.

Studios, artists, and suppliers who are listed on the platform — whether paying for a featured tier or listed at no cost — do not receive editorial coverage as a benefit of their listing status. They are not notified in advance of editorial decisions about their coverage, and they have no approval rights over editorial content that references them.

Advertising and sponsorship revenue does not influence editorial rankings or the editorial opinion expressed in any LVTC publication. If a commercial relationship ever affects an editorial decision, it will be disclosed publicly in the relevant article.

Our editorial team makes independent decisions on what to cover, how to frame it, and what verdict to reach. When we are uncertain, we publish our uncertainty rather than disguise it as confidence.

All factual claims in LVTC editorial content are verified against primary sources before publication.

We define a primary source as: a firsthand document, a direct quote from a named individual, official public records, or data from the originating institution. Secondary sources may be cited when no primary source is accessible, but are labeled as such.

Statistics and quantitative claims that cannot be sourced to a primary data set are either removed from the article or explicitly qualified ("industry estimates suggest," "commonly cited figures indicate"). We do not round up speculation into fact.

Contributor-submitted articles are reviewed for sourcing completeness before publication. If our editors cannot verify a claim and the contributor cannot provide a source, the claim is removed or qualified. This is not negotiable regardless of the contributor's credentials.

We publish corrections promptly. See the corrections policy below.

When content is sponsored or underwritten by a paying partner, it is clearly labeled "Sponsored" or "Partner Content" at the top of the article and in any promotional links to it.

Sponsored content on LVTC is produced to editorial standards — accurate, attributed, and readable — but is not subject to the same independence requirements as organic editorial content. Sponsored content represents the partner's perspective, not LVTC editorial opinion.

LVTC editorial staff do not write sponsored content. Partner content is either submitted by the partner and edited by LVTC staff, or produced by a clearly identified third-party writer working on behalf of the partner. In either case, the sponsoring party is identified in the disclosure label.

We do not accept editorial content about a business that is contingent on advertising spend from that business. Advertising buys placement — not editorial coverage, and not the editorial voice of LVTC.

LVTC does not currently operate an affiliate link program. When this changes, all affiliate relationships will be disclosed at the top of any article that contains affiliate links.

Affiliate revenue, when it exists, does not influence editorial opinion. Products reviewed under an affiliate arrangement are reviewed by the same standards as products reviewed without one. If an affiliate relationship would compromise the independence of a review, we do not run that review.

Contributor-submitted articles that contain affiliate links must disclose those relationships in the submission notes. We will add the appropriate disclosure label before publication. Submissions that contain undisclosed affiliate links and are published in error will be corrected with a disclosure notice and the contributor's standing will be reviewed.

LVTC does not publish AI-generated content as original editorial. All published writing must be substantially authored by the credited human contributor.

Contributors may use AI tools for research assistance, outline generation, grammar review, or headline brainstorming — these are writing tools in the same category as spell-check and style guides. What they may not do is use AI to write the article and submit it under their name without disclosure.

If AI tools played a meaningful role in drafting the submitted text, that must be noted in the submission form. We do not penalize disclosed AI use — we may still publish the article if it meets our standards. We do remove the byline credit when AI is the primary author regardless of who pressed the submit button.

LVTC staff use AI tools for administrative tasks — formatting, alt text generation, tagging assistance — not for editorial writing. When AI is used in the production of any editorial content published under the LVTC masthead, it will be noted in the article footer.

LVTC currently operates on an exposure-based model for contributors. Paid contributor rates will be introduced as the platform grows.

In the current model, contributors receive: a published byline, a dedicated author profile page, a do-follow backlink to their website from every published article, social amplification when their article is published, and first-access status for paid opportunities when those rates launch.

We will not promise what we cannot deliver. Paid editorial rates, when introduced, will be published on this page and disclosed to all active contributors simultaneously. We will not negotiate private per-contributor rates below the published floor — rates apply equally to all contributors at a given tier.

If a paid contributor model is never introduced, that fact will also be published on this page. We do not make the exposure promise in bad faith.

Corrections to published content can be requested by emailing editorial@lasvegastattooculture.com.

We review all correction requests regardless of who submits them — readers, subjects of coverage, contributors, or our own staff. A correction request is not an automatic correction: we investigate the claim against our original sources and make a determination.

When a material factual error is confirmed, we correct the article and add a correction notice at the bottom of the page stating what was changed and when. We do not silently edit published articles to remove inaccuracies. The correction notice stays live permanently alongside the corrected content.

Corrections to minor errors (spelling of names, date formatting, broken links) are made without a correction notice but are logged internally. If you believe a minor correction was handled silently when it should have carried a disclosure, contact us.

We do not issue corrections in response to commercial pressure, legal threats that lack merit, or reputational concerns from subjects who simply dislike accurate reporting. Correction requests on those grounds will be declined and, if the pressure is significant enough, noted publicly.