Worst Case Guide aims to correct meaningful factual errors and materially outdated information.
What Can Be Reported
Potential issues may include incorrect factual statements, outdated statistics, changed regulations, outdated technical requirements, inaccurate dates or figures, broken sources, misleading wording, or information that no longer reflects current authoritative guidance.
How to Report a Correction
A correction request submitted through the Contact page should identify the affected article and the specific statement or section involved.
Useful correction requests normally include:
- The article URL
- The statement believed to be inaccurate
- An explanation of the issue
- A reliable supporting source, when available
Evaluation of Correction Requests
A correction request may be checked against the article’s existing sources, primary documentation, government publications, technical standards, regulatory materials, research, or other authoritative evidence appropriate to the subject.
The existence of a conflicting source does not automatically establish that a published statement is incorrect. The date, scope, authority, methodology, and relevance of the evidence also matter.
Minor Corrections
Spelling, grammar, punctuation, formatting, and other changes that do not materially affect meaning may be corrected without a formal correction notice.
Factual Corrections
Incorrect names, dates, figures, technical claims, requirements, or other factual statements may be changed when reliable evidence establishes that a correction is necessary.
Substantive Updates
New information may sometimes require changes to several sections of an article rather than a single sentence.
A page may be substantially revised when newer evidence, standards, regulations, or official guidance materially change the subject.
Major Problems
If the central premise of an article is no longer supportable, the page may require substantial revision, consolidation with another page, redirection, or removal.
Updates and Corrections Are Different
Information can be accurate when originally published and later become outdated.
Changes to laws, software, security standards, browser requirements, industry standards, government guidance, or product behavior may require an update without meaning that the original information was incorrect at the time.
Disagreements and Interpretation
Not every disagreement represents a factual error.
An article may contain analysis, interpretation, or risk assessment. A correction is appropriate when the factual basis is incorrect, an important omission creates a materially misleading impression, or a statement does not accurately represent the evidence supporting it.
Commercial Requests
Payment is not accepted in exchange for removing accurate information, changing factual conclusions, providing favorable editorial treatment, or disguising a commercial request as a factual correction.
Contact
Potential factual errors or outdated information can be reported through the Contact page.