The rules of the desk
Editorial policy
The desk publishes the classic card games as they are printed: standard rules first, variants marked as variants, history from the record, corrections in the open.
This site covers six games, Euchre, Hearts, Pinochle, Spades, Bid Whist and Hand and Foot, and it covers them from the published standard games. Where the classic books agree, the site states the rule without qualification. Where popular tables disagree, and in the classics they often do, the article says which is the standard, marks the variant as a variant, and asks the table to fix its book before the deal. No rule is presented as disputed when the books agree, and none as settled when they do not.
Evidence and its limits
Rules articles follow one deal start to finish and are checked against the standard game before publication. Strategy guides argue from counting, and any play recommended on this site must survive the question, does this win the same hand twice. History articles cite the printed record: rule booklets, newspaper accounts, the published card historical literature. Disputed points are labeled disputed, and the site does not invent tournaments, anecdotes, dates or authorities to fill a gap; the gap stays a gap and says so.
Corrections
A reader who finds an error writes to the contact page, and the desk checks the claim against the standard game, not against the article. Confirmed errors are corrected promptly and visibly: the page changes, and the change is made in the body of the page rather than in a footnote nobody reads. The score, in this house, outranks the memory, including the desk's own. The commercial floor that keeps this possible is stated on the sponsored content page, and the legal sides sit in the privacy and terms pages.