News & Guides

Guides and News Are Two Different Things

Two kinds of writing belong here, and they age differently. A guide explains how something works — how a wagering requirement is calculated, how a bank transfer reaches a cashier, what a licence class covers — and it holds for as long as the mechanics hold. A news item reports something that happened on a day: a rule made, a licence granted or withdrawn, a penalty imposed.

A Commencement Date Can Itself Move

The clearest reason a dated article is not a current record is that even the dates move. When the Gambling Commission announced its new rules on promotional offers it gave a commencement date, and then changed it — the same page carries the note "EDIT: The date for implementation has been changed from 19 December 2025 to 19 January 2026." An article written in the week before that edit was accurate when it was published and wrong afterwards, through no fault of its own.

So the route from an article to the position that applies now runs through the subject rather than through the archive. A market, an operator, a game or a payment method each has its own page, carrying the primary source the position was read from and the date that source was last checked. Where an article and a subject page differ, the subject page is the one that has been re-verified.