Editing Methods & Corrections

'''Methods & Corrections''' explains how Aletheia separates sources, interpretation, experiments, and aspirations. The wiki is a working public record: a conclusion should be correctable when better evidence arrives.

== Read an article ==
Look for a precise claim or question; sources linked near the statements they support; the strongest reasonable counterargument; an explanation of why a conclusion follows; and a date and scope. A court ruling in one case, a field observation on one model, and a design proposal have different evidentiary weight. None should be silently promoted into a universal result.

== Article status ==
* '''Draft''' — an early outline or research note; not yet source-checked.
* '''Source checked''' — cited primary material was examined and the article distinguishes its holding or content from our inference.
* '''Field observed''' — a named observer reports a result with conditions and date; independent replication is not implied.
* '''Independently reproduced''' — another party or team has repeated a specified test and supplied a traceable record.
* '''Concept''' — a proposed design or institution; no working implementation is asserted.
* '''Prototype''' — some implementation exists, with limitations and test evidence stated.
* '''Released''' — a defined version, documentation, and license are available for its stated use. Release does not itself certify safety or suitability.

Status is about evidence for a particular statement or artifact, not the credibility of a person. A page can contain several claims at different stages. Use the narrowest accurate label and date it. [[Aletheia:Article standards]] explains the full checklist.

== Corrections and disagreement ==
[[Aletheia:Corrections log]] records material corrections with the old claim, new claim, reason, and source. Page histories remain available for every edit. Use an article's discussion page for a sourced objection or propose a correction through [[Aletheia:Suggest a claim or correction]]. Preserve a strong minority interpretation when the evidence remains unsettled; do not manufacture equal support when the records are decisive.

== Contributions and limits ==
Suggest a testable question, a source, a repair record, or a reproduction. Do not publish credentials, private personal information, customer records, sensitive facility details, or an exploit sequence. For safety-critical devices, security findings, and legal or medical questions, the needed review is more demanding. Aletheia can document a concern and mitigation path without revealing details that would create avoidable harm.

== Related sections ==
* [[Claims Under Examination]] — sourced claim reviews.
* [[Repair Commons]] — diagnostic and repair records.
* [[Sovereign Stack]] — project status and links to releasable work.
* [[Open Research]] — hypotheses, nuggets, tests, and negative results.
* [[Systems Worth Building]] — replacement-first proposals and safeguards.

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