Field Guide Worksheet
Claim Review Card
Use this worksheet when a statement could affect identity, ancestry, legal status, descent, Muur/Moor language, spiritual interpretation, oral tradition, or living people.
What this worksheet adds
- It gives one claim, place, or source packet a bounded structure so details can be compared instead of guessed from memory.
- It helps the reader record what the source actually says before stronger interpretation begins.
- It creates a cleaner handoff into review lanes if the topic becomes sensitive, disputed, or identity-adjacent.
What remains open: Filling in the worksheet does not settle the claim. It only makes the next review decision clearer.
Worksheet decision frame
Best used when
- The risk is the wording itself: a sentence could imply identity, ancestry, descent, DNA, legal status, Muur/Moor history, oral tradition, spiritual interpretation, or living-person facts.
- A reader wants to repeat, correct, strengthen, or challenge a claim and needs to show exactly what is supported.
- The site needs a visible path from source packet to safer public wording.
Reader output
- An exact-claim record with supporting sources, limiting sources, open questions, evidence level, claim status, and recommended wording.
- A clear publish/hold/rewrite/fact-check/correction decision.
- A safer sentence that preserves what is known without adding identity-certification or legal-status meaning.
Do not use this worksheet to
- Make a sensitive claim sound settled because it has emotional, spiritual, oral, or community importance.
- Turn one source, one story, one map, one surname, or one symbol into ancestry, legal-status, descent, Nation, tribal, DNA, or membership proof.
- Skip Evidence Gates when the claim affects living people, family privacy, contested identity language, or public reputation.
20-Minute Use Pattern
Use this worksheet without overbuilding it
This quick-start pattern adds discipline by keeping the first pass small, source-led, and review-ready instead of letting a worksheet become an unstructured dump.
- Name the place, source, or claim in one sentence.
- Copy exact source details before interpretation.
- Mark claim status and evidence level before writing conclusions.
- Move sensitive rows to Safe Sharing or Evidence Gates before public use.
Stop when the next review step is clear. More rows are not better if they blur uncertainty, privacy risk, or source type.
Before you fill this out
These guides do not certify identity, ancestry, descent, tribe, nationality, DNA, legal status, membership, Muur/Moor claims, spiritual interpretation, or oral-tradition claims. They help readers collect sources, label uncertainty, and decide what needs review before stronger wording is used.
Claim status options: Supported, Needs Review, Open, Unsupported, Sensitive / Do Not Publish Yet.
Evidence level options: A - direct public source; B - corroborated public source; C - partial or contextual source; D - weak, unsourced, or contradicted; Sensitive - review required before public use.
Claim
Evidence
Recommended wording
Next step
Submit the question to Fact Check or Source Review if the claim still affects sensitive public wording.