Editorial methodology
How facts are verified, cited and expired.
No operational fact is published without answering five questions: who reported it, when it was updated, what its source is, when it must be reviewed again, and whether it is confirmed or pending. This is not an editorial promise: it is enforced by the data model, which does not allow declaring hours, a price or availability without that information attached.
The four statuses
- Confirmed — checked by the desk against a citable source.
- Partner-supplied — a venue statement, published as theirs.
- Pending — demonstrative or incomplete, always marked as such.
- Outdated — the review window expired. Degradation happens automatically by date.
What we do not do
- We do not invent availability, hours or prices.
- We do not infer hours from review platforms.
- We do not publish coordinates without field verification.
- We do not build links by approximation: if there is no stable URL, there is no URL.
- We do not delete errors: we correct them and leave a record.
The Concierge
The Concierge answers only from content published on this site. It cites the pages it used, explains why it recommends, shows the update date and explicitly declares when it lacks sufficient information. It does not browse the open web and does not improvise.
Answers
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- How does THE WHOLE verify its information?
Related reading
Editorial independence
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About THE WHOLE
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