Community Notes & Fact Checks
How to Turn a Community Note Into an Article Update
This field note is part of the FOBA learning stream. It is meant to orient readers and point toward better source work.
Key points
- A Community Note should name the page, the exact sentence or claim, the source lead, and the proposed improvement.
- Editors should decide whether the note is a small wording repair, a new source trail, a Fact Check, or a Correction.
- The update should explain what changed without exposing private information about living people.
Next steps
- Copy the claim into a review card before changing public copy.
- Add or revise the source trail, evidence level, and claim status.
- When the change is material, add it to the Corrections Log or a visible update note.
Source trail
- FOBA Community Guidelines – Contribution and safety expectations.
- FOBA Corrections Log – Public change-tracking path.