Content type
Wiki explainer
Primary use
Use this page to compare source lanes, place anchors, and wording limits before repeating a historical claim as settled.
What this page adds
It should add source-aware context, place anchors, wording limits, and a clearer next step than a raw claim or isolated source link can provide.
Evidence level
Starter
Claim status
Open
You should leave with a narrower question, a clearer place context, and a better sense of what the current source trail can support.
Overview
A privacy redaction checklist should be used before any Community Note, Fact Check, place packet, image caption, video note, or family-history source trail is published. It protects living people and keeps the site trust-centered.
What this page adds
- It turns a topic, place, or naming question into a source-led learning page instead of leaving it as a vague claim or isolated citation.
- It separates what the current record can support from what still needs comparison, correction, or stronger evidence.
- It gives readers a next-step research path instead of pretending the page is the last word.
What this helps you learn
- The checklist can catch public email addresses, phone numbers, current addresses, minors, raw DNA files, medical details, financial details, and family conflict.
- It supports pseudonymous participation and safe public learning.
- It keeps private records from being used as public proof without review.
Careful claims
- Do not assume redaction removes every risk.
- Do not publish living-person private information simply because a record or screenshot is available.
- Do not ask readers to submit raw DNA data, private identity documents, or legal-status files.
Research path
- Remove email addresses, phone numbers, current addresses, private account details, and living-person identifiers before publication.
- Replace names with pseudonyms where the public source trail does not need the legal name.
- Send uncertain cases through owner/source review instead of guessing.
Reader quality check
- Can you name the exact place, period, institution, or source type this page is using?
- Can you separate a direct source detail from an interpretation or community-memory reading?
- Can you identify which sentence would need a Source Table, Place Packet, or Claim Review Card before reuse?
- Can you explain what would change the wording: a new source, a contradiction, a boundary change, a name variant, or a privacy concern?
Before reusing this page
- Copy the claim only with its evidence label, place context, and uncertainty note.
- Check whether the page is explaining a source, a memory lane, an interpretation, or a working hypothesis.
- Use Source Review before turning the page into stronger identity, ancestry, legal-status, descent, DNA, membership, or Nation-language wording.
- Use Community Notes or Fact Check if a missing source, changed boundary, name variation, or contradiction would alter the public wording.
Source trail
- FOBA Safe Sharing – Safe sharing guide.
- FOBA Privacy Policy – Public privacy page.
- FOBA Moderation Policy – Moderation and submission review.
What remains open
This starter should be treated as a working research surface. Dates, naming, family continuity, identity-adjacent conclusions, and disputed interpretation may still need Source Review, Fact Check, Community Notes, or stronger corroboration.
Evidence note: This starter entry is educational. Add sources, dates, maps, Community Notes, and Fact Checks as research develops.