Errata & corrections policy
How mistakes are handled — in public, with a dated trail.
POLICY
Any instrument is sometimes wrong. This policy is decided in advance so that a correction is never a judgement call made under pressure: corrections are dated and visible, and nothing is edited silently.
The rules
- Every investigation is stamped. Each Notebook post carries an engine-version and data-DOI badge, so a reader always knows exactly which build and which data produced its numbers.
- Superseded work is banner-flagged, never deleted. When a post’s conclusion is overtaken — by a physics fix, a data correction, or a new result — the original post gets a dated banner linking to what replaced it. The original text stays up. Nothing is silently rewritten, and nothing is quietly removed.
- Corrections are logged. A running corrections changelog records what changed, when, and why, so the full history is readable in one place.
- The engine and the posts correct independently. A legitimate physics fix in the engine must not be blocked by an old post’s pinned fixture. Archival fixtures are frozen and run only against their own pinned engine tag; current-engine fixtures are updated with intent. See Reproducibility & data.
Reporting a problem
If you can show that a published number does not regenerate, or that a stated boundary is wrong in a way that changes a conclusion, that is a correction we want to make in public. Open an issue on the engine repository.
Corrections log
No corrections to date.