How to report a possible error
Email [email protected] with the page URL, the exact statement or image in question and the source that supports your concern. A precise report can be checked much faster than a general disagreement.
Useful reports include changed conservation assessments, revised taxonomy, incorrect image identification, broken citations and wording that overstates uncertain research.
How a correction is evaluated
The existing source, the proposed source and the scope of the claim are compared. Newer is not automatically better if it is less authoritative or refers to a different species or population.
Minor spelling and link repairs may be made directly. A substantive factual correction should also be reflected in any related summary, label or explanation on the site.
What does not count as a correction?
A difference in taste, tone or preferred common name is not necessarily a factual error. Taxonomic disagreements may require the page to present both treatments rather than choose one without context.
Publication dates are not changed simply to make a page look new. Meaningful revisions should reflect real changes to the document.