Use the source that owns the fact and preserve its exact scope.

Source hierarchy

Use canonical first-party records for Semantec SEO identity, MIRENA product facts, price, policies, and support. Use current official provider documentation for OpenAI, Stripe, Authflow.ai, Google, WordPress, and other external systems.

Use legislation, regulators, standards bodies, or authoritative public guidance for legal, privacy, accessibility, consumer, and technical standards.

Claim-to-source mapping

A citation must support the exact claim, not merely the broad topic. Record the statement, relevant passage or field, source owner, publication or observation date, market, version, and limitation.

Do not cite one part of a source for a stronger conclusion found nowhere in the record.

Currentness and effective dates

Current pricing, product capabilities, platform rules, law, policy, providers, and availability require current verification. Historical sources may support historical claims when clearly dated.

A page's updated date does not refresh an older source.

Source classes

Quotations and copyright

Use short quotations only when the exact wording matters, preserve context, identify the speaker or publisher, and link to the source where appropriate.

A citation does not grant permission to reproduce a protected article, image, table, database, or large passage.

Conflicting sources

Do not average or silently choose between conflicting identity, price, feature, policy, or legal sources. Record the conflict, scope, date, authority, and owner.

Hold the claim or use qualified wording until the controlling source is resolved.

Derived and calculated claims

A calculation, score, classification, or comparison must identify the source values, formula, units, date, assumptions, missing values, and rounding.

A model inference is labelled as analysis and must not be presented as direct source evidence.

Links and archived evidence

A source link should resolve to the authoritative page and use descriptive text. When a source changes materially, preserve a lawful archive, screenshot, or internal evidence record if needed for an historical or dispute record.

Do not use an inaccessible source as the only public support for a material claim when a current accessible source is available.

MIRENA-assisted research

MIRENA can help identify, classify, summarise, and map sources, but a reviewer must open and verify the material used for a material claim.

A generated citation, title, quotation, or URL is not accepted until it resolves and supports the exact statement.

Correction and withdrawal

When a source is corrected, withdrawn, retracted, expires, or becomes unavailable, trace every dependent claim and choose replace, qualify, date, remove, hold, or preserve as historical.