Corrections
If something here is wrong, we want the document. Send the page, the sentence, and the policy document that contradicts it. We check the claim against its source, correct the record rather than only the sentence, and note on the page what changed and when.
By the Covered Weight editorial team. Research and sourcing by Evan Reid.
How to report one
Write to [email protected] with the page address, the sentence or the table cell, and where the correct answer is published. A link to the governing document is worth more than an explanation, because the document is what we will check against either way.
Corrections from the organisations we cite are welcome and are treated the same as any other: checked against the published document, not accepted on authority. If a plan or an agency tells us a page is wrong, we ask which document says so.
What happens next
- The claim is checked against the source the page cites.
- If the source says something different from the page, the underlying record is corrected and every page that reads it moves at once. A site that fixes the sentence and leaves the data has not fixed anything.
- If the source itself has changed, the old record is kept with the date it stopped applying and a new one is added. What changed and when is often the question a reader actually has.
- If the page was right, we reply saying which document supports it and why. A report that turns out to be wrong is still useful, because it usually means the page was unclear.
Errors we treat as urgent
Anything about a deadline, an appeal route, or which forum hears a case. A reader who misses an appeal deadline cannot appeal that. Those are corrected ahead of anything else, and where we are not certain, the page says so rather than guessing, which is why several pages currently state that a deadline is not published here yet.
What we will not do
Remove an accurate statement because an organisation objects to it, or soften a status because a partner would prefer a different one. The independence page sets out the separation, and the editorial process the checks that make a quiet change hard to hide.