Who We Are
thisDay.info is run by Armin Kapetanović, a developer and history enthusiast based in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Armin is the site's editor. He reviews the published articles, fixes the errors he finds, and answers correction reports. The editorial team is small by design — the goal has always been depth over volume, and a genuine interest in why historical events happened, not just that they did.
Our blog focuses on significant historical events tied to specific calendar dates. We cover wars and conflict, political turning points, scientific breakthroughs, social movements, disasters, exploration, and the lives of people who shaped the world. Every article is grounded in documented historical record.
How Articles Are Produced
We use an AI-assisted research and drafting pipeline, combined with editorial review. Here is the exact process every blog article goes through before it is published:
Event selection
An event is selected from the current calendar date's historical record, weighted toward events with strong documentation, clear historical significance, and enough primary-source material to write a substantive article. Events with insufficient documented sources are excluded.
AI-assisted research and drafting
An AI language model drafts the article from the selected event record and the direct source pages gathered for that event. It is constrained to include specific, verifiable facts — real names, exact dates, documented locations, and attributable quotes — and not to fill gaps with plausible-sounding detail. Generic summaries and unsupported generalisations are explicitly prohibited in the generation prompt.
Eyewitness quote verification
Any direct quote attributed to a historical figure is put through a separate verification pass. If the quote cannot be traced to a real, documented source — a letter, diary entry, newspaper account, or published memoir — it is removed before publication. We do not publish paraphrases as direct quotes.
Automated source and fact checks
Automated publication safeguards verify the event date and year, direct citations, independent corroboration of the central claim, factual consistency with the gathered source material, and image relevance. A failed check triggers a source-bound repair or stops the article from being published.
Automated SEO and quality pass
A separate automated pass checks clarity, completeness, metadata, repeated claims, image attribution, and required article sections. Weak or vague passages are sent through a source-bound rewrite. The article must meet minimum content and structural standards before it qualifies for publication.
Publication
The finished article is published with direct source links, visible independent corroboration of its central claim, image credit to Wikimedia Commons, and a disclosure explaining the AI-assisted process. Readers can inspect the listed sources and report a correction.
Our Editorial Standards
Every paragraph must contain at least one verifiable, attributable fact — a real name, an exact year or number, a specific place, or a documented quote. Vague generalisations ("a pivotal moment", "changed history") are prohibited in our generation guidelines.
Every article links to its direct sources: the Wikipedia record of the event and at least one independent, verified publisher that corroborates the central claim. An article that cannot show both is not published. Images are credited to Wikimedia Commons. We use the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Where an eyewitness quote is used, the source document and year are attributed inline.
We use AI to process and structure documented historical information efficiently. We do not use AI to invent facts, fill gaps with plausible-sounding detail, or generate quotes without verified attribution. The fact-check and quote validation steps exist specifically to catch and remove hallucinated content before publication.
Routine daily articles are published automatically after the automated checks above, so the editor, Armin Kapetanović, usually reviews them after they go live. When the review finds a mistake, the article is corrected. The disclosure on each article says this, and it does not claim a human read every sentence before publication.
We publish corrections when errors are identified. If you find a factual mistake — a wrong date, a misattributed quote, an incorrect location — please report the error. We take accuracy seriously and will update the article and note the correction.
What We Don't Do
- We do not publish AI-generated content without a verification pipeline.
- We do not fabricate or invent historical detail to fill gaps in the record.
- We do not present AI-generated paraphrases as direct historical quotes.
- We do not artificially update article dates to make old content appear new.
- We do not remove correction notices once they are added.
Data Sources
Historical event data across the site is sourced from Wikipedia via the Wikimedia REST API, provided under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Images are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under their respective free licences.
Blog articles draw on the AI model's training knowledge of documented historical events, anchored by the Wikipedia source linked at the bottom of each post. Readers are always encouraged to follow the Wikipedia link and consult primary sources for anything academically or professionally important.
Report an Error
Found a factual error, a misattributed quote, or something that doesn't look right? Use our contact page or email [email protected] with the article URL and a brief description of the issue. We review all correction requests and respond within a few days.