State important uncertainty before it becomes a footnote. When sources disagree, identify the disagreement and its likely basis instead of silently selecting the cleaner account.
Unverified details remain unpublished or are explicitly marked as unresolved in a working draft.
Naming uncertainty means describing what remains unknown about the claim itself — a missing comparison, an untested generalization, a disputed number — not narrating how the page was produced. “The paper doesn’t report a head-to-head benchmark” is a finding; “I only checked the abstract” is a process note that has no reason to be in front of a reader, and isn’t a substitute for actually checking the source. If a claim can’t be checked against the source, don’t publish the claim with a disclosed shortcut — resolve it or drop it.
See Source and review policy for the full policy.