Before publication, confirm:
- every central claim has an appropriate source,
- links resolve to the intended material,
- quotations and numbers match the source,
- uncertainty and exclusions remain visible,
- no unsourced or private observation from the drafting process appears in the text (an editorial note about how two sources relate to each other, an author overlap noticed while researching, or similar) — if it isn’t something you’d cite, it doesn’t belong in public copy,
- central evidence, equations, conclusions, and uncertainty remain in the main text,
- any appendix meets the same source and review standard as the main text,
- cross-links add necessary context, and
- a human has reviewed and explicitly approved the final public text.
See Publication gate for when a page is ready for this checklist.