Help:Records
Every piece of srcfy work is a record: a wiki page with a record infobox (or, for incident articles, the incident infobox, which stores the same fields). The infobox fields feed the public search on srcfy.com. Create a record with the record form.
From submission to publication
- Source. Volunteers gather original material and record provenance. Status: Sourcing.
- Verify. A separate person checks claims, context, dates and duplicates. Status: Verification.
- Review. The approval committee decides by a majority yes. Status: Review.
- Publish and update. The record is published with citations, limitations and a correction route. Status: Published. Only published records appear in search.
New records start as Sourcing, and an empty or unknown status counts as Sourcing, so nothing is published by accident. Set Published yourself, after the committee's decision. A Published record also needs a content type, an evidence status and a publication date (and an interactive path for Interactive records); without them srcfy.com skips it and the page shows a red warning box listing what is missing (Category:Published records with missing fields). To take a record down, set the status back to Review or delete the page; it leaves srcfy.com within about a minute.
A vote approves publication. It does not turn a weak claim into a fact. AI output is never evidence.
Fields
| Field | Meaning |
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| Content type | Documentation traces events through dated records and original sources. Report is evidence-led analysis of patterns, claims and public issues. Investigation is a deeper inquiry into events, institutions and accountability. Interactive is a timeline, map or dataset with its limits made clear. |
| Summary | One or two neutral sentences, shown in search results. |
| Event or topic date / End date | When the event happened or the period the record covers, as YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD. This is the date the search filters on. A partial date such as 2017 matches any search range that overlaps 2017.
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| Publication date | When srcfy published the record. Kept separate from the event date. |
| Country, Region, Location, Map location | Where. Add map coordinates only when the exact place is public and safe to show. |
| Community / identity | Three separate types: religious community (e.g. Muslims), caste (e.g. Dalits) and ethnicity (e.g. Adivasi). |
| Belief / affiliation | Four separate types: religious belief (e.g. Islam), political ideology (e.g. Hindutva), philosophy (e.g. Atheism) and political party. |
| Topics | Subject tags. |
| Evidence status | What the sources establish: Allegation (a claim, not yet corroborated), Reported (reported by at least one credible source), Corroborated (supported by independent sources), Confirmed finding (established by a court, inquiry or official record), Disputed (credible sources disagree), Unresolved (key facts unknown). |
| Editorial status | Sourcing, Verification, Review or Published (see above). |
| Featured | Offers a published record for "Featured research" on the homepage. no, false, 0 or empty mean not featured.
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| Killed / Injured | Numbers of people killed and injured, for records that document an attack. Shown on the search result card. |
| Correction note | Only for substantive corrections: the date and one line, e.g. 2026-11-12: Corrected the date of the first hearing. Shown on the srcfy.com record page. Typo fixes need no note.
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| Interactive path | Interactive records only: the srcfy.com path under /interactive/, e.g. cow-violence-map. An Interactive record without it is not shown.
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| Incident fields | The incident infobox also passes its own fields: victims and allegation (searchable text), the alleged trigger (a filter with four values: cattle transport, cow slaughter, cattle theft, beef consumption), killed and injured, the legal status, and the district, which is added to the location as "place, district". |
| Image | Rights-cleared images only, with alt text. |
Rules for identity and affiliation
- Record only identities that the sources themselves state. Never infer a person's religion, caste, ethnicity or party from their name.
- Keep the types apart. Islam (a belief), Muslims (a community), a caste, atheism and a political party are not interchangeable.
- Political or religious labels are not conclusions. Tag what the record is about, not who is to blame.
- The suggested values in the form are a draft vocabulary awaiting editorial approval. You can type a new value, but check the existing ones first so the same thing is not spelled two ways.
Evidence trail
Cite each fact with Template:Cite source (incident articles may keep using Template:Cite news; both are counted as sources on srcfy.com, one per distinct URL): original URL, publisher, author, publication date, access date, a permitted archived copy, and the exact page, quote or timestamp. Label allegations as allegations, record corroboration and disputes, and say what remains unknown.
Protecting people
Avoid unnecessary personal data. Review source safety, image rights and risks before publication.