Sourcing standard

The rules a story has to clear before it is published.

Before publication

• Every factual claim traces to a source in the list at the foot of the story.
• Where sources disagree, the disagreement is reported rather than resolved silently.
• A date is stated for anything that has one, and "recently" is not a date.
• A company's own claim about itself is labelled as such.
• Nothing is published on the strength of a single source that is itself uncited.

The build refuses some things outright

A reporting story that arrives with no sources fails the build rather than being published with a zero beside it, because a zero next to a news headline would look like comment. Comment carries an explicit designation instead.