Source priority
Information is prioritized by source reliability, in roughly this order:
- Official government, military, or agency publications.
- Reputable published references, official museums, and archival records.
- Established news reporting and specialist open-source publications.
- Widely repeated public reporting — treated with caution and labeled accordingly.
Lower-confidence sources are labeled, not hidden, so readers can judge them for themselves.
Evidence-confidence labels
Every substantive claim carries a confidence label:
- Verified
- Supported by official or authoritative public sources.
- Publicly documented
- Documented in reputable public references.
- Commonly reported
- Repeated across credible public sources but not officially confirmed.
- Historical / period-specific
- Accurate to a specific era, not necessarily current.
- Research pending
- Not yet verified; shown as pending rather than assumed.
Corrections and update process
Errors are corrected as they are identified or reported. Policy pages carry a "last reviewed" date, and unit profiles are revised as public sources are reviewed. To report an issue, use the corrections process.
Editorial prohibitions
The archive does not invent sources, licenses, credits, equipment, uniforms, personnel, or operational claims. Where public information is missing, it is marked unknown or research pending rather than fabricated.
Representative media is never presented as confirmed unit media, and unrelated imagery is not reused to represent a different unit.