Correction Policy

At a glance

Corrections, clarifications, updates, and retractions are labeled differently.
Readers can report issues or request corrections by email.
SOhS updates content when better information becomes available.
Meaningful corrections are made visible to readers.
The aim is accuracy, transparency, and public trust.

Accuracy before pride

The purpose of SOhS is careful public reasoning. We do not hide meaningful mistakes, quietly erase serious errors, or treat good-faith correction requests as personal attacks. If we are wrong, incomplete, or unclear in a way that affects public understanding, we should say so plainly.

What we correct

Incorrect facts, dates, names, definitions, statistics, or descriptions.
Misquoted, misattributed, missing, outdated, or broken sources.
Claims that need stronger evidence, clearer limits, or better context.
Headlines, summaries, or framing that could materially mislead readers.
Errors in charts, captions, links, metadata, or article categorization.

What does not qualify

Requests to remove accurate public-interest material only because it is uncomfortable.
Political, commercial, or ideological pressure without evidence of error.
Disagreement with a clearly labeled opinion, question, or moral perspective.
Abusive, threatening, spammy, or bad-faith correction requests.
Attempts to rewrite the record without reliable sourcing.

How changes are labeled

Correction

Used when a published factual claim was wrong. The corrected article should include a visible note explaining what changed.

Clarification

Used when wording was technically accurate but could reasonably confuse readers or omit important context.

Update

Used when new information, newer sources, or changed circumstances improve an article without making the original version wrong.

Retraction

Used only for serious cases where the central claim cannot be supported or the published material should no longer stand.

How to request a correction

Until a dedicated correction form is live, send correction requests to sohs@societyofhomosapiens.org. You may also use the topic submission flow for non-urgent source checks.

A useful correction request should include:

The article, question, dilemma, or page URL.
The exact statement or section you believe is wrong or incomplete.
Your proposed correction or clarification.
Reliable supporting evidence, preferably primary or clearly attributable sources.
Your contact email if you want a follow-up.

Review process

Log the request and identify the affected content.
Check the original source material and any evidence supplied.
Decide whether the issue is a correction, clarification, update, retraction, or no change.
Update the content when needed and add a visible note for meaningful changes.
Preserve internal records so repeated problems can be reviewed.

Timing and priority

We aim to review correction requests as soon as reasonably possible. Issues that could affect safety, reputation, legal risk, identity, public health, or serious misunderstanding receive higher priority than minor wording or formatting issues.

Minor spelling, grammar, formatting, or broken-link fixes may be made without a public correction note when they do not change meaning.

Transparency standard

Meaningful corrections should be easy for readers to see. SOhS should not use vague labels such as "fixed" or "changed" when a factual correction is required. A correction note should explain the substance of the error and the corrected information without over-explaining or humiliating anyone involved.

For community submissions, moderation actions may hide, reject, or label user-generated content. SOhS does not rewrite a user's opinion to make it appear they said something different.

Future workflow

SOhS should eventually add a dedicated correction-request form, correction status tracking, article-level correction notes, and an internal correction log for editors and moderators. Until then, this policy sets the standard for how correction requests should be handled manually.

Corrections are part of truth-seeking.