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the work is wrong.

Where to write

• Corrections, disputes and everything editorial — contact@doyourownresearch.me. Factual errors, challenges to a finding, missing evidence, source problems, permissions, and general correspondence.
• Privacy, cookies and advertising — privacy@doyourownresearch.me. What is collected, which third parties set cookies here, and how to opt out is set out on the privacy and advertising page.

There is no contact form on this site and no chat widget, because there is no backend here to receive one. Email is the whole surface, and it is monitored.

Disputing a finding

This is the route that matters most. DYOR publishes on claims where reasonable, well-informed people disagree, and where the evidence base is contested and incomplete. Some of what is published here will be wrong. The point of publishing the whole record — every excerpt, every snapshot digest, every empty search, every recorded attack the run made on its own conclusion — is that a wrong step should be locatable and nameable rather than a matter of opinion about our judgement.

You do not need to be an academic, a journalist or a subject-matter expert to file one. You need to point at something specific.

What to include, if you can:

• Which dossier, and the URL of the page you are reading.
• Which part of it. The quoted sentence, the source number in the source record, or the finding identifier from the run transcript — the fnd_… or ev_… string. That last one is the fastest possible way to get to the exact cell of the ledger you are challenging.
• What the record says, and what you say it should say. State the two side by side.
• What backs your version. A document, a dataset, a study, an archive reference, a court record. A link is ideal; a citation we can find is fine. An assertion with nothing behind it can be read but cannot be acted on.

If a snapshot digest on a source has stopped matching what the URL now serves, that is worth reporting on its own — it means the page changed under a citation, and the digest is the thing that proves it.

What happens next

• Acknowledgement. We aim to reply to every message identifying a specific factual error within five working days, including to say that we are still checking it.
• Assessment against the record. A dispute is checked against the stored snapshot and the run transcript, not against memory or against the published prose. If the published page disagrees with the run record, the page is wrong.
• Correction or refusal, in writing. If the challenge holds, the page is corrected and the change is logged publicly. If it does not hold, you get a reply saying why, pointing at the part of the record that answers it. A dispute that is refused is still answered.
• A public log. Every substantive correction is recorded in the corrections log on the editorial standards page, with its date and what changed. Every edit is also a dated, public commit in this site's repository.

What we will not do is quietly delete a page because its conclusion became inconvenient, or amend a run's findings to match a complaint. The correction policy — including what happens if a dossier has to be withdrawn — is set out in full under editorial standards.

Other requests

• Quoting and republication. Quote freely with attribution and a link to the dossier. For republication of a substantial part of a piece, write first.
• Right of reply. If you or your organisation is named in a dossier and considers its treatment there unfair or inaccurate, say so at the address above. A substantive reply from a named party is published alongside the piece where it bears on a finding.
• Suggesting a claim. Suggestions for future dossiers are welcome and are not a commitment. What makes a good candidate is a claim that is widely repeated, specific enough to be bounded, and backed by documents that can be snapshotted and quoted.
• Press and interviews. Same address. Say what the piece is and what the deadline is.

What this address is not for

So nobody wastes their time: DYOR does not accept guest posts, sponsored articles, paid links, link insertions or link-exchange requests, and it does not publish content supplied by a third party. It does not take payment to add, alter, soften or remove a finding. Offers of that kind are not negotiated; they are ignored.

What we do with your email

Correspondence is read and kept only for as long as it takes to deal with it and to keep a record of any correction it produced. It is not added to a mailing list — there is no mailing list. It is not sold, shared or used for advertising. If you send a correction we may quote or paraphrase the substance of it in the public corrections log; we will not publish your name, address or any other identifying detail unless you have asked us to credit you. Full detail on data handling is on the privacy page.