Editorial Policy

Our Editorial Standards

WheelieNames publishes on three topics:

• Classroom and education tools
• Fair-selection guides for streamers and event organizers
• Gift and party-planning content

Article topics are chosen based on real reader questions, classroom feedback, and our own daily workflow — not blind search-volume scraping. If we haven't encountered a problem ourselves or heard it directly from a teacher or organizer, we don't manufacture content around it.

For technical context on how our tool works, see our methodology page.

How We Test Tools and Software

We require a minimum of 14 days of hands-on usage before publishing any review. No tool gets a recommendation from a brief demo or a vendor walkthrough.

For education-related tools, testing is conducted from a teacher's workflow perspective, not a developer's. We care about what happens when a non-technical user encounters the tool under classroom conditions — time pressure, varying devices, a class roster loaded and ready.

Side-by-side comparisons follow a fixed scoring rubric:

• Ease of use
• Pricing and total cost of ownership
• Classroom appropriateness — no ads or data harvesting during student use
• Accessibility (keyboard navigation, screen reader support, color contrast)
• Support response time

How We Recommend Hardware

We are transparent about the difference between personal testing and curated recommendations:

• Products marked ✓ Hands-on tested have been used personally for at least 30 days.
• Other products are recommended based on educator reader feedback, expert reviews, and verified buyer ratings on Amazon.
• We will never recommend a product to teachers we wouldn't use in our own household.

Affiliate Disclosure (full version)

WheelieNames participates in affiliate programs. Here is what that means concretely:

• Amazon Associates: We earn commissions on qualifying purchases made through our product links.
• Kinsta: We have an affiliate partnership for hosting recommendations.
• Gumroad: Products in our store are our own — we earn directly from sales, not through affiliate commission.

Affiliate commissions never influence which products we recommend or how we rank them. Our Kinsta review identifies pricing concerns even though we earn a commission from it. That's the standard we hold ourselves to.

For the full legal disclosure, see our affiliate disclosure page.

AI Content Disclosure

We use AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT) as research and drafting assistants for blog posts. Every article is then human-edited by İsmail Günaydın — fact-checked, restructured, and rewritten in his own voice. We do not publish raw AI output.

Tool documentation pages — including this page, /methodology, and /about — are written entirely by humans. There is no AI involvement in editorial policy or fairness claims.

AI-generated images, when used, are labeled as such.

Our Promise to Educators

• ✓

  WheelieNames will always be free for classroom use. There will never be a "classroom edition" you have to pay for. We will never lock fairness behind a paywall.

• ✓

  We will never run ads inside the wheel-spinning experience itself.

• ✓

  We will never sell, share, or analyze student names or wheel contents. They live in the browser; we don't see them.

Sources & Citations Policy

We prefer primary sources: W3C specifications, peer-reviewed research, and manufacturer documentation. Secondary sources (journalism, aggregators) are used only when a primary source is unavailable or requires contextual framing.

Currently cited primary sources include:

• W3C Web Cryptography API specification

Corrections Policy

If you believe something we've published is factually incorrect, email us at wheelienames.contact@gmail.com.

• All correction requests are reviewed within 48 hours.
• Confirmed corrections are noted at the bottom of the article with the date of correction.