THE STANDARD
The open ledger
This is the standard every claim on this site is held to, and the tally of where the catalogue stands against it. A citation that nobody checked is worth less than one that is — but most of the web does not tell you which you are looking at. This site records two states and prints both.
What "verified" means here
Entry-level verification: an entry is marked verified once a person here has checked its central claims against source material they actually opened. Individual records on that entry keep their own states and are audited in their own time - a checked entry can still be carrying secondary references nobody has read.
74 of 255 entries are marked verified, which means a person here read source material and checked the entry's central claims against it. It does not mean every reference on those entries has been read - 108 of 580 records still have no locator at all.
The three states a record is in
- 300 retrievable — a reader can open the record and find the work named. This is not a claim that it was read.
- 234 unverified — the work has been looked at and is not yet locatable. The honest state of a citation still in progress.
- 46 needs-source — not a citation at all. A string that was never a reference, recorded as such rather than dressed up as one.
What is not a deficit
17 entries carry no citation at all, and that is not an omission. They are the site's own argument — claims with no external referent to attach a source to — and a claim of that kind is not an unsourced claim. They are counted separately here so they cannot be read as one.