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Sources

One sentence in the eventual script may depend on a quotation, a calculation, and a disputed observation. Sources keeps each support visible before voice and imagery make the sentence persuasive.

Freeze the evidence

A live URL helps locate a source. Freeze the evidence as a named snapshot before a claim depends on it, keeping three things together:

  • What was read: source identity, revision/digest, relevant span, and known author or publisher. Another reader must be able to find the material that supported the claim.
  • How it may be used: classification, rights posture, audience, purpose, disclosures, and retention. Custody of a snapshot does not settle every future use.
  • What this work asks of it: an editorial brief fixing the question, audience, target, scope, tone, exclusions, review standard, and freshness.

A changed question or changed source creates a forward revision. Keep each script tied to the revision it relied on under the declared retention policy.

Build the claim ledger

Bind each factual claim to its spans and classify the work as quotation, extraction, calculation, synthesis, or interpretation. Preserve confidence, assumptions, contradictory evidence, reviewer state, and every dependent article, script, caption, or timeline object.

A stale or disputed claim can be narrowed, attributed, removed, returned for research, or refused. Fluent wording cannot raise its evidence grade. A correction appends corrected/withdrawn state and stales dependants without rewriting what the earlier claim said.

Rights, privacy, likeness, and Portal egress are checked on entry and whenever intended use changes. The resulting evidence and claim revisions enter Script. They grant neither voice synthesis, another owner's asset revision, rendering, nor publication.