Editorial policy
How we write, source and check our guides
Most of what people search about being Thai by family is half-remembered forum advice. We try to be the page you can trust instead. This is how.
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Two kinds of page
Essays are personal: lived experience, told in the first person and signed with a first name. Guides explain something factual, like a document, a holiday, a custom or a word. Guides on papers, law, money and grief carry the neutral byline “lukkrueng.com editors”, because they are built from official sources, not from anyone’s opinion.
Sources
- Every factual or legal claim links to a source, listed at the end of the page.
- For papers and rules we go to the official source first: Thai embassies and consulates, the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Gazette and other government pages. Then reference works and dictionaries, then reputable press.
- When sources disagree, or we couldn’t confirm something, the page says so instead of picking one and sounding sure.
- We don’t invent numbers. Where a figure is an estimate, it is labelled as one.
Dates and re-checks
- Each guide shows “Last checked”: the day we last read its sources. The sources list repeats that date.
- Paperwork and legal guides are re-checked at least every 90 days. Calendar pages (holidays, festival dates) are re-checked when the official dates are published, and monthly while they’re current.
- When a page changes in substance, it gets an “Updated” date. Material fixes also go in the corrections log.
- Paperwork guides are not legal advice. Rules change and every case is different, so they always end with the same advice: confirm with your Thai embassy or consulate.
Review before publishing
Every guide is checked line by line against its sources before it goes live, by someone trying to prove it wrong. Pages about papers, law, grief, money and identity get a second review on top. Anything we couldn’t confirm is cut or labelled.
Thai and native review
- Thai on this site comes from our app, Reply Thai, and from the Thai already in our guides. We don’t write new Thai straight into a page, so the site and the app never drift apart.
- Every Thai line is marked as a draft until a native Thai speaker has reviewed it. When a page’s Thai has been reviewed, the draft note is replaced by a line saying so, with the date.
- Romanization follows one house style, so the same word is spelled the same way everywhere. Thai varies by region and by family; when your family says it differently, your family isn’t wrong.
Never shame
Nobody gets ranked here: not by how Thai you look, how much Thai you speak, or which passport you hold. We joke about situations, never about people, and never about Thais or farang as groups. We don’t promise fluency, and we never suggest anyone should have learned as a child.
Our app, and money
lukkrueng.com is made by the same small team as Reply Thai, an iPhone app for answering your family in Thai, and both are part of Langluer. Pages may mention the app; paperwork, legal and grief pages only carry a quiet badge in the footer. Nobody pays to appear on this site and there are no affiliate links. If that ever changes, the page in question will say so before the link.
Mistakes
We get things wrong sometimes. Tell us, and we’ll check it against the sources, fix the page, and log material fixes publicly.