Corrections

Reporting an error

If you believe an article contains an error, contact the Silent Dossier Editorial Desk with the article, the specific claim in question, and, where possible, the source evidence supporting your report. Every report is reviewed against the article's cited sources.

How corrections are classified

Once a report is confirmed, it is recorded at one of four severities:

• Cosmetic correction -- a wording, formatting, or typographical fix that does not change the article's substance.
• Material correction -- a fix to a detail that changes the article's substance but not its overall conclusion.
• Correction (new edition) -- an error significant enough that a new, corrected edition of the article is published in its place.
• Retraction -- the article's central claim cannot be supported and the article is withdrawn.

Visible correction history

Corrections are not made silently. When a correction is recorded against a content-available edition, a correction notice naming the severity and the change appears directly on that article, alongside the rest of the article's edition history. Corrections are reviewed and approved through the same human editorial process that gates original publication -- an automated pipeline cannot issue a correction on its own.