Press Room: Citation Practice, Data Dates, Corrections

What this page is

The press room explains how Coinage handles citations, dated data, and corrections. A site that grades its own sources should publish the grading policy. Journalists and readers who want to quote our work, check it, or argue with it should start here.

How citations work

Every page carries a source list at the foot of its body. A claim in the prose links to the entry it rests on. A reader moves from a sentence to the document behind it in one click. Every page holds at least two sources. Each source entry records its title and URL as they stood at verification time. When two sources disagree, the page says so. It labels the gap rather than picking the side that reads better.

The practice rests on published anchors. Claims about attestation practice follow the standards the accounting profession publishes through the AICPA ^[1]. Claims about United States agency rules follow the Federal Register, where agencies publish rules and public notices ^[2]. Legislation is cited to the statute text itself, not to reporting about the statute.

Dated data assets

Volatile figures are the heart of this subject, and they drift. Reserve totals move. Chain fees move. Depeg histories grow.

On this site, every volatile number carries two companions: the date it was true, and the source it came from. A fee table with no date is a rumor with formatting. You will not find one here.

Data pages lead with tables. The prose that follows reads the tables aloud. Each row of a fact table states its own as-of date. Two rows captured in different months never blend into one false present. When a figure is retired rather than refreshed, the page says that too.

The same discipline covers embedded video. Each embed carries a receipt with the date it was verified live, the channel behind it, and a label for that channel’s point of view.

An issuer’s own video and an independent educator’s video are not the same kind of evidence.

The correction policy

Corrections run in three tiers. Typographical errors are fixed silently. A comma does not need a press release. A wrong figure, a broken source, or a mislabeled date is fixed with a dated note stating what changed and why. A framing error gets the same note plus a longer explanation. A framing error means a fact that was correct but presented in a way that misleads. There the fix lives in the wording, not the number.

Correction requests route through the contact page. We answer them in the order received. A verified error is fixed at the tier it belongs to, not at the tier that is cheapest.

Reuse and attribution

Short quotes are fine with attribution and a link to the page quoted. Data tables should be cited to the source named in each row, not to this site. The figure was verified at that source, not here. The about page states the full editorial method, including the confidence labels and what this site declines to do.