The Editorial Desk prioritises official records and first-party documents; court judgments, legislation and regulatory records; academic, archival and institutional sources; established journalism; direct interviews conducted by the publication; and other sources whose provenance and reliability can be assessed.
Anonymous blogs, scraped biographies, automatically generated pages, unsupported social-media posts and circular citations are not sufficient evidence for material claims. There is no fixed minimum source count. Disputed, extraordinary and adverse claims require stronger corroboration than routine details.
Numbered footnotes link each material claim to its source and link back to the text. Where available, source records show the author or issuing organisation, title, publisher, publication date, URL, access date and archive URL. Sections appear only when supporting material exists.