Overview
Evidence labels help readers understand how far a page can responsibly go. A strong entry separates primary records, reliable summaries, interpretation, oral history, community memory, and open hypotheses instead of mixing them into one confident paragraph.
What this helps you learn
- Evidence level tells readers what kind of support a claim currently has.
- Claim status tells readers whether the project treats a claim as open, supported, disputed, or corrected.
- A careful label protects both the reader and the community from overclaiming.
Careful claims
- Do not use a confident tone to hide thin sourcing.
- Do not treat a repeated story as settled fact without showing the source path.
- Do not make identity, tribe, ancestry, or legal-status claims from this site alone.
Research path
- Write the claim in one plain sentence.
- Name the source type that supports it.
- Add what the source does not prove, then choose the evidence and claim-status labels.
Source trail
- FOBA Editorial Standards – Internal guide to evidence and claim-status labels.
- FOBA Safe Sharing – Privacy guardrails for public research collaboration.
Evidence note: This starter entry is educational. Add sources, dates, maps, Community Notes, and Fact Checks as research develops.