Method file claim control surface
Methodology and evidence tiers
Evidence labels describe the available record. They do not turn editorial judgment into a score, erase a dispute, or permit a retrospective account to masquerade as contemporary proof.
Revision 2.1 · public method · bounded corpus
Register M-01
Evidence tiers
Letters mark editorial state. Color is secondary; every state is named in text.
| Tier | Means | Public treatment |
|---|---|---|
| A | Authenticated contemporary artifact or dated first-party announcement | Bounded statement with direct citations |
| B | A source supports the record, but date or context gaps remain | Supported claim with gaps named |
| C | A single retrospective account | Attributed account, never unqualified fact |
| D | Contradiction, inadequate provenance, or no resolvable source | Excluded from public event records |
No numerical truth scores: a percentage would dress editorial judgment as measurement. Each claim links to source IDs; each record names what those sources do not establish.
Source-bounded language
A first-party announcement proves what its author announced on that date. It does not independently verify every effect. A retrospective About page can support wording such as “the page describes” while remaining insufficient for an exact date. Removing that attribution would change the claim and is not permitted.
Register M-02
Hard exclusions
- No operational exploit instructions; exploits may appear only as source-bounded historical context.
- No doxxing, real names behind pseudonyms, credentials, or current base coordinates.
- No fabricated artifacts, reconstructed screenshots presented as originals, invented quotes, or audience totals.
- No disputed lead in the public event export; Tier D stays outside the factual chronology.