Our method — how we establish and date what we publish
Checked as of
Three levels, and we always say which one applies
Confirmed means the publisher or the studio stated it, and we can quote the sentence. Reported means a credible outlet stated it and the publisher has not. Not confirmed means nobody authoritative has said it at all.
The level is attached to the entry itself, not to the layout, so it cannot drift out of sync with the text. It is shown at the top of the page, next to the date the claim was last checked.
Facts the source publishes are generated, not typed
Where a source publishes a fact in a machine-readable form — a release date, a platform list, the announcements feed — we do not copy it by hand. A script reads the source and writes the file, and a second run fails loudly if a human has edited it in between.
This is not tidiness. A fact typed by hand is a fact that can drift silently when the source changes. A generated fact cannot: it either matches the source or the build stops.
We watch the pages we cite
Source pages get rewritten. A publisher can change a date, soften a claim, or remove a page entirely, and a site that quoted it would never notice.
So we keep a fingerprint of every page we treat as authoritative, and a check tells us when the text behind a citation has moved. Roughly sixty-eight thousand characters of source text are watched this way.
What we refuse to do
We do not attribute to a source a precision it never published. Adding a plausible detail to a real quotation produces a false fact even when the substance is right, and a check runs specifically to catch that.
We do not fill gaps with the tabletop game. Dawn of War IV names a limited set of units; the wider Warhammer 40,000 setting names hundreds. Borrowing from the second to pad out the first would read as knowledge and be a guess.
We do not present official media as our own, and we do not generate imitations of its characters either. Official files remain credited in the media register, with their source, retrieval date and basis of use recorded.
When we are wrong
Every page carries the date it was last checked, which makes staleness visible rather than hidden. If a claim here is wrong, the contact page reaches a human, and a correction is a change to the entry with a new date, not a quiet edit.