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Every public record is a claim about internet history. These are the rules for making, labeling, and correcting those claims.
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Crops, captions, redraws, GIFs, clips, and fandom recreations belong beneath one canonical family when they preserve the same recognizable visual or narrative grammar. Materially different templates receive separate records. Possible duplicates stop in review before publication.
Evidence ladder
We prefer original media, creator posts, dated archives, platform records, interviews, and contemporaneous reporting. Later summaries and community recollection can guide research but do not outrank primary evidence. Search popularity is not proof of origin.
Evidence states
Verified means the central chronology and identity are supported. Developing means the record is useful but important claims remain open. Disputed means credible evidence conflicts. Confidence scores describe identity confidence for a branch, not overall truth.
Meaning and branches
“How it speaks” explains observed usage without pretending every use is identical. Known branches must identify the relationship to the root, distinguish confirmed from inferred characters or creators, and preserve open attribution gaps.
AI assistance
AI may organize notes, transcribe, find candidate matches, compare visual fingerprints, or draft copy. It does not independently verify origin, invent citations, decide duplicate merges, or publish canonical changes. A human editor owns every public claim.
Corrections
Challenges are evaluated against evidence, not vote totals or sentiment. Material changes record what changed and why. Corrections update the canonical page; they do not silently create a replacement record.