Editorial policy

Every claim is labelled: primary source, secondary source, official statistic, interpretation, normative claim, unverified or synthetic. Interpretations and normative claims are labelled as such, never presented as findings (§64, §73).

Nine stages, each with a stop condition: proposal, draft, evidence review, rights review, accessibility review, technical review, approval, publication and monitoring (§184). Law, statistics, translation, personal data, maps and community material automatically add a specialist reviewer (§173).

Content is current, provisional (with an expiry date), corrected, superseded, withdrawn, archived, or a synthetic demonstration — and the page always says which (§80). Provisional content never silently stays up past its expiry.

We never correct silently. Upheld corrections carry a notice on the page and an entry in the public log. People and communities we write about have a right of reply.

• Plain language, short sentences, defined terms (§93).
• Indian number grouping (12,34,567) and day-month-year dates (§175).
• Official place names with recorded spelling variants; non-stigmatising terms; no “best”, “worst”, “backward” or ranking language about places.
• Hindi and Maithili translations carry a “review pending” label until a reviewer has checked them; if a translation and the English differ, the English text prevails. Nothing is machine-translated on the fly (§96).