Our Team — and What Each of Us May Not Do

Dragon Auto Guide is produced by six people, and one rule binds them all: no one approves their own work. Before publication, every page passes three separate gates — editing, language review, technical sign-off — and no gate is closed by the person whose work it inspects. Publication itself is in the publisher’s hands, not any editor’s. And the checking does not stop there: indexing audits run on a rolling basis after publication, and a daily re-verification cycle keeps asking whether yesterday’s numbers are still true.

The profiles below are method, not medals. You will find no credentials listed here — you will find what each person does, and what each person is not allowed to do. The second list is where trust actually lives.

Ethan Cole — Editor-in-Chief & Automotive Technical Researcher
Writes and edits every page — structure, voice, filtering — from documented verification records, and names the traps owners fall into.
May not: Publish a number without a verification record, settle a technical dispute, approve his own language or put a page live.
Eleanor Brooks — Copy Editor & Language Reviewer
Runs the final language gate: grammar, terminology consistency and the house rule that a metaphor is checked like a number.
May not: Change a number or technical claim, restructure a page, or close any gate but language.
Daniel Wei Chen — Technical Reviewer
Senior Chinese Automotive Diagnostics & Repair Specialist — Sydney, Australia. Provides the technical sign-off on repair-related pages and re-reads them on the live site — his word is final on technical content.
May not: Edit style or publish.
Lena Petrova — Visual Editor, Diagrams & Imagery
Draws every site diagram in SVG from figures already published and approved on this site; keeps the media licence register and vets external images — documented licences only, never dealer photos.
May not: Chart a number without a published page, embed or publish her own diagrams, or approve her own captions.
Priya Nair — Search Performance & Indexing Editor
Post-publication hygiene — canonicals, sitemaps, structured data, index coverage — so verified pages can actually be found.
May not: Touch content, numbers or titles, or fix what she diagnosed.
Marcus Liao — Chief Reviewing Editor, Data Currency
Re-checks one covered car every day against fresh official sources; every audited page gets a recorded verdict — current, stale, discrepancy or watch.
May not: Edit a page himself. Findings go back through the gates like new work.

The rules these roles enforce are published in full in our Editorial Policy. And where the gates have failed, the record is public: we published our mistakes when they happened — see Corrections.