Editorial policy
Corrections
The archive is a record, so it is not quietly rewritten. When a fact changes, or when we get one wrong, the change is added to the piece and dated. The original wording stays where it was.
Corrections are appended, not swapped in
A published entry is never silently edited. A change arrives as a dated addition at the foot of the piece, or as a visible change of status on a transfer. The note reads like this:
Update, 4 July: the club confirmed the move the day after this entry was filed.
Rewriting a headline, the line beneath it or a judgment after publication, without saying so, is not allowed. You can read what we first said, and see what changed, on the same page.
Backfill is a different thing
Backfill adds entries for days that have none. It is written from that day's sources and describes what was known then, with no hindsight framing. A correction changes something already published, and it always shows itself.
New lanes launch under their real publish date. Nothing is back-dated to make the archive look older than it is.
What gets corrected
- A wrong score, date, name spelling, fee or attendance figure.
- A story that resolved the other way after we published it.
- A claim attributed to the wrong reporter or the wrong outlet.
- A name left ambiguous because two footballers share it and the sentence never settled which one we meant.
How to report an error
Email partnerships@josephbankole.ca. Say which page you are reading and which line looks wrong, and what you believe the right version is. A link to a source makes it quicker to check.
Anything that checks out is corrected on the page itself, with the date the note went up.
How we check things first time
The standard the desk works to, including what counts as a source and when a single named reporter is enough on their own, is set out in how we verify. More about the publication and who writes it is on the about page.