How we verify

The verdict

The headline at the top of every article is one of three sentences. A human has confirmed this article means the gate passed it and a signature stands over its claims. No human has confirmed this article means the gate refused it, or nobody has signed it; the page then lists what is missing, by requirement. This article is currently unverified means a signature once stood and no longer covers the article — its clock ran out, or a source it cites changed.

The countersignature

On a confirmed article, the block with the coloured stroke names who signed, the date they signed, and the tier the article is held to. That colour appears nowhere else on the site except the keyboard focus ring: it means a person is present.

The coverage rail

The rule down the left edge of the article body carries a mark beside each paragraph that makes a claim. A paragraph without a mark makes no claim the signature covers; that is not a failure, it is prose. The signature covers claims, not sentences.

The sources

Below the article, each claim's identifier is listed with the address of the vendor's own page and the quotation the claim rests on. Only the vendor's documentation counts as a source.

Under each quotation, the retrieval note says when the site's retrieval tool read that page, that it found the quotation in it, and the content hash of the page as retrieved — a fingerprint you can compare across articles and dates. If no such note appears, the page says so: nobody has opened that source through the tool, and the quotation is the author's word.

What the signature covers

The list under that heading names exactly what a signature is over: each claim with its source, quotation and page hash; each code example with its output and versions; and the tier. The digest shown beneath it is computed from those items as they stand. Editing any of them, or a re-fetch that finds a cited page changed, moves the digest, and a signature over the old digest no longer stands. The count of ledger records beside it says how many times a human has signed this article.

The clock

Each article carries a tier, and each tier a window: 30 days for prices and numeric limits, 60 days for model names and version identifiers, 180 days for concepts. An article that spans tiers takes the shortest. The countersignature shows the days remaining; when they run out, the headline changes to currently unverified and a notice says why. A detected change on a cited page makes an article unverified before its window ends, and the notice names the page and the date.

Corrections

When a published claim is found wrong, the article is corrected and a dated note appears above the article, in every state, saying what changed. Nothing substantive is edited silently.

What is not verified

The signature covers the inventory and nothing more: the claims, their sources and quotations, the examples and the tier. The prose around the claims, this page, and the site's own interface are not signed. And a signature says a person read each claim against its source — it does not say the source is right.

The evidence

The re-verification report lists every article that is unverified, unsigned, or approaching its window, with the count of articles examined. It reaches no verdict of its own: it resolves each article's signature and clock the same way the article's page does, and it does not run the publication gate.