How anything gets onto this site

Sources

Figures come from the body that produced them: the department, the statistical agency, the statute, the original study. Coverage of a source is not the source. Where a number is used, the page names where it came from and when it was retrieved, and the underlying document is kept so the claim can be checked later against the version that was actually read.

Where something cannot be established, the page says what is not known and what would settle it. It does not fill the gap with a plausible sentence.

Archive records

Every record is written from a Wayback Machine capture of that exact address, and the capture is linked on the page. Titles and dates are read from the capture. They are never derived from the address, and never from the words somebody used when linking to it. One page cited elsewhere as "Art of Swising" turns out to have been titled "Save money by Swishing", the typo belonging to the citation rather than to the original.

Records are short. They describe rather than reproduce, they stay in the third person and the past tense, and they do not characterise the intentions of the people who wrote the original.

What is not published here

No invented authors and no invented credentials. No statistics without a source. No ratings, reviews, awards or badges. No republished article text and no press agency photographs. No claim of any relationship with the organisation that formerly held this domain.

Contributions

Contributions are considered on the same terms as anything else here. They must be original, sourced to primary material, and written by a named person who is willing to be named. A contribution offered in exchange for a link to a third party is not an editorial submission. It is advertising, and it is disclosed as such on the page or it is declined.