Publication governance

Editorial and correction policy

HOL Guard public security claims are evidence-bound, reviewed, expiring records. A claim that reaches its expiry date without re-review enters the stale queue instead of remaining silently current.

Publishing checklist

  • Named owner role and reviewer role
  • Current source evidence and evidence class
  • Review date and future expiry date
  • Material limitations and unsupported states
  • Public correction path
  • Neutral comparison review when competitors are named
  • Security-response review for active threat campaigns

Claim expiry and reminders

Owners receive review-state reminders when a governed claim enters the 14-day and 3-day windows. Expired claims are queued for re-review, correction, retraction, or removal from current publication surfaces.

Recurring integrity reviews

Category and comparison set

quarterly. Review category definitions, competitor set, same-metric neutrality, source freshness, and unknown-versus-unsupported states.

Crawler documentation

quarterly. Review crawler directives, llms.txt, sitemaps, canonicals, machine-readable endpoints, and material crawler documentation changes.

Editorial rules

  1. 1. Separate sourced facts, modeled analysis, product coverage, and recommendations.
  2. 2. Preserve material limitations, unfavorable results, null results, and unsupported states.
  3. 3. Publish corrections and retractions without converting them into third-party authority wins.
  4. 4. Never trade payment, access, or sponsorship for a favorable comparison, ranking, citation, or recommendation.
  5. 5. Expire claims that are not re-reviewed by their evidence-specific deadline.

Corrections and retractions

Material corrections remain visible. Retracted public artifacts retain a clear tombstone where needed so old citations do not resolve to silently rewritten claims.

View corrections and retractions