Source Review
Before Stronger Claims, Review the Source Trail
This workflow helps the project turn research leads into public citations without overclaiming sensitive history, identity, ancestry, living Nation language, DNA, legal status, or community memory.
Owner Source Review Workflow
The deep research report is treated as source-trail guidance, not as public citation text. Re-find the real source, capture its public details, and cite that source directly before strengthening sensitive claims.
Ready-to-strengthen threshold: use at least one direct source for ordinary factual claims and two independent sources for sensitive or identity-adjacent claims. Living Nation, community, stewardship, media-rights, and privacy questions must be reviewed before publication.
Needs owner review
A source trail exists, but the owner has not approved stronger public wording.
Needs expert/source review
The claim touches living Nations, sacred or funerary context, legal identity, DNA, descent, or contested history.
Ready for citation
The exact wording is supported by reviewable sources and can be cited publicly.
Keep cautious
The careful wording is safer than a stronger public claim.
Do not publish stronger
The stronger claim is unsupported, overbroad, or unsafe.
Required source fields
- Claim
- Proposed stronger wording
- Source title / creator
- Source URL / archive / location
- Source type
- Date created
- Date accessed
- What it supports
- What it does not support
- Privacy / living-person risk
- Reviewer initials / date
- Decision
Review risk categories
- Place names used as proof of ancestry, settlement, or legal identity.
- Mound centers assigned to modern identity labels without official source support.
- Artifacts, trade goods, or exchange routes used as proof of identity membership.
- Colonial firsts written in a way that erases prior Indigenous histories.
- Muur, Moor, Mexica, Aztec, and Moctezuma/Montezuma language collapsed into one concept.
- DNA, genealogy, descent, legal identity, or community-membership claims.
- Harmful historical source language quoted without context.
- Sacred, funerary, burial, repatriation, or restricted cultural material.
Public copy rule
Until review is complete, keep using careful language such as "source trail to review," "what is supported," "what is open," "needs review," and "interpretive caution." This project does not certify identity, ancestry, tribe, nationality, DNA conclusions, legal status, descent, or membership.