ACCOUNTABILITY

Citations

This site argues that a claim nobody checked is worth less than one that is. Here is the state of the catalogue, in public, ranked by how much of the atlas points at each entry. No sign-off and no filtering to the flattering subset.

90citations actually checked

238sourced

0not yet stood behind

17are our own argument, and take no source

0of 616 edges land on something unchecked

472of 580 sources have a locator

17 of these entries are not claims about the world and will never carry a citation. They are the framework this site argues from - the counter, the paradox, the clerk, the card. An argument is not sourced, it is defended, and attaching a reference to one would be decoration dressed as rigour. They are marked as this site's own argument and counted separately, so the number above is a real backlog rather than a queue of things that cannot be done.

Two words that are not the same thing. Sourced means a person read the citation and stood behind it. Retrieved means the link resolves, which is a statement about a URL and not about the world. Most of the gap above is the second kind of problem: the claim is written and the reference exists, but nobody has fetched the reference or checked it against the sentence.

This page is the technical audit, ranked by how much of the atlas points at each entry. The open ledger is the same data stated as an editorial standard — what the two words mean, what counts as read, and what is deliberately not counted as a deficit.

238 SOURCED

Edges	Entry	Kind	State
2	The AI Age Act and companion rules2024 · ai	term	sourced
3	The companion that talks back2017 · ai	mechanism	sourced
2	The radio church of Sister Aimee1924 · radio	person	sourced
2	The distance programme1981 · history	mechanism	sourced
5	So many people want to believe he's real1986–1990 · television scripted	work	sourced
2	Your face is too well known1930 · visual art	work	sourced
2	The audience organised against the show1928 · radio	work	sourced
4	The anime import boom1998 · games	event	sourced
4	The Replika user2017 · ai	person	sourced
5	The attention economy2010 · history	term	sourced
4	The ensemble farewell2019 · film	event	sourced
3	The baseball the papers built1927 · sport	person	sourced
3	Beatlesmania1964 · history	event	sourced
4	Cordially yours, Betty Crocker1921 · literature	person	sourced
2	The Bieber effect2009 · television unscripted	event	sourced
2	Binding1438 · theology	mechanism	sourced
4	Will you help me?1996 · television scripted	work	sourced
5	The boy band1997 · games	work	sourced
4	Cancelling2017 · technology	term	sourced
5	Charisma as a measurable asset1968 · history	study	sourced
6	Not all ghosts are bad1945 · comics	work	sourced
5	The failing endorsement2015 · technology	study	sourced
2	Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616 · literature	person	sourced
6	Character.AI2022 · ai	event	sourced
6	The lawsuits2024 · ai	case	sourced
5	Characters move in1970 · film	mechanism	sourced
4	A doodle of you used as your address1914 · film	person	sourced
4	The companion bot boom1995 · ai	mechanism	sourced
5	The girl the studio built1927 · film	person	sourced
3	The cliffhanger1930 · television scripted	mechanism	sourced
5	Kurt Cobain1994 · music	event	sourced
4	The stamp card1990 · history	mechanism	sourced
3	The comfort rewatch1990 · film	mechanism	sourced
7	The comic strip1897 · history	work	sourced
6	Convention culture1976 · games	event	sourced
11	The congregation-200 · theology	mechanism	sourced
9	Fighting about a stranger in a reply section2005 · technology	mechanism	sourced
2	Nobody answered2011 · games	mechanism	sourced
2	The creator joins the living room2026 · television unscripted	event	sourced
5	The people who are supposed to be reachable2015 · history	term	sourced

and 198 more, in the full index.

THE BACKLOG, WORST FIRST

Ranked by degree, not by age. An entry with nineteen edges into it is reached nineteen times as often, so its citation status matters nineteen times over. This is the order to fix them in.

Edges	Entry	Kind	What is missing