Corrections are added, not edited away
A published error does not stop existing when the page is fixed. Somebody read it, and they are owed the correction more than the archive is owed a clean record. So a correction is logged here with the original mistake stated in full — including what a reader would reasonably have concluded from it — and carried in the next edition.
This register covers the publication as well as the reporting: a page that misdescribes how DAYBREAK rates its own items is an error of the same kind as a wrong figure, and is logged the same way.
2 corrections logged
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Logged Monday, August 10, 2026 · material
Front door, archive, media kit, and the how-it-works page
What was wrong. Several pages stated that every item in DAYBREAK carries an Admiralty source-reliability letter and information-credibility number.
Why it happened. The Admiralty scale was adopted at Edition No. 002 on August 1. The four editions before it use a status tag instead. The claim was written from the current editions and applied to the whole archive.
What a reader would have taken from it. The publication overstated the consistency of its own rating system — a claim about method, on a site whose method is the point.
What changed. Those pages now say that every item carries a confidence marker, and name which scheme applies where. The how-it-works page explains both scales and why they are not interchangeable.
Still outstanding. The how-to video "What the source ratings mean" still says every item carries two marks. It has not been re-recorded.
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Logged Monday, August 10, 2026 · significant
Editions No. 001, 022, 024 and 025
What was wrong. Every item in those four editions displayed an empty confidence tag, above a build ledger that read "Credibility 0 / 15".
Why it happened. The archive uses two confidence schemes. The four earliest editions carry a status tag (confirmed, developing, preliminary, reported); editions from August 1 onward carry an Admiralty source-reliability letter and information-credibility number. The rebuild that generated these pages read only the Admiralty fields, so the status tags — 60 items' worth of real editorial judgement — were dropped, and the ledger counted the result as zero confirmed.
What a reader would have taken from it. For a reader, those pages asserted that none of the reporting in them was credible. That was never true and was never what the editions said.
What changed. Both schemes are now carried, counted and labelled separately, and are never converted into one another. A build gate now fails on an empty confidence tag or a ledger reporting zero confirmed items.
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