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Sourcing Standards

This category is the narrowest on the blog, deliberately. It's about what actually makes a claim about a candidate verifiable — the difference between something sourced and something merely asserted, and why that distinction is worth defending. There's one piece here so far; more will follow as the standard gets applied to specific cases, not as a volume target.

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Sourcing Evidence: What "Confirmed" Actually Means

A confirmed claim and a well-reasoned guess read exactly the same in a shortlist. That is the entire problem, and it is why sourcing has to be a structure rather than an intention.

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