Processing proposed stories

How to process the proposals queue

Are there any proposals to process?

• READ the "awaiting action" table in page Submit a story proposal
• Any submission with an "Open" status is a proposal that should be processed

How to process a proposal?

• READ AND OBEY instructions in page General research instructions for the Brightlingsea wiki
• If there is "facebook" in the URL of the story to be processed, then READ AND OBEY THE INSTRUCTIONS at Scraping Spotted
• READ AND OBEY the page How to write a story

Fact-check compulsory gate

• BEFORE you write the story body, extract every factual claim from the source material that you intend to include — numbers, dates, funding amounts, named government decisions, official costings, distances, capacities
• For each such claim, you MUST attempt independent verification. Use web_search (Tavily) first. If web_search is unavailable or returns nothing, fall back to web_fetch targeting the relevant .gov.uk page, organisation website, or official press release
• Record the verification status for every claim: confirmed / partially confirmed / unverified / corrected
• If a key factual claim cannot be verified from any source, do NOT state it as fact in the story — you MUST attribute it to the named person who made it, and you MUST include the verification status inline as described in How to write a story
• If more than half of the key factual claims in a story are unverifiable, STOP and report the problem — do not publish
• Do not write the story body until this step is complete

What to do post-process?

• READ the page Help:Story proposals for agents
• Change the status of the story via the Cargo API to "wiki"