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How Calgary Biztech handles factual corrections: what to send, what counts as material, and the things we refuse to do to a published page.
If a page here is wrong, we want to know more than we want to look right.
Send corrections to editors@calgarybiztech.com. This is the one thing that always gets acted on.
What Makes a Correction Fast
Three things, and the third is the one people leave out:
- Which page. The full address.
- Which sentence. Quote it, so we are fixing the thing you meant.
- What the correct position is, and what shows it.
A link to a primary source turns this into a ten-minute job. Send it without one anyway if that is what you have. A reader saying “this does not match what our accountant told us” is a signal worth chasing even when it arrives with no citation, and several pages here have changed on exactly that.
Material Against Minor
The distinction decides whether the change is announced.
| What it covers | What happens | |
|---|---|---|
| Material | Anything that would change what a reader does: a wrong rate, a wrong deadline, a capability that does not exist, a rule described backwards | The page changes, the review date moves, and a dated note explains what changed and why |
| Minor | Typos, broken links, formatting, a clumsy sentence | Fixed quietly. Nobody made a decision based on a typo |
What We Refuse to Do
These matter more than the process above, because a corrections policy is only worth what it refuses.
- We do not quietly revise. A material change gets a visible note. Editing the record and saying nothing is how a publication stops being worth reading.
- We do not move review dates to look current. A review date means someone read the page against its sources on that date. Bumping it on an unchanged page is a lie told to a search engine at the reader’s expense.
- We do not remove pages because a company dislikes them. Accuracy is the only ground for changing a page. A vendor who disputes a fact gets the same process as a reader, and the fact decides it.
- We do not accept a correction we cannot verify. If a claim is disputed and neither side can source it, the page says the position is disputed and shows both.
When We Get It Wrong About a Company
Pages here name companies as factual examples. We do not claim a named company has an operational problem, and we do not imply one is failing a statutory obligation.
If a page describes your company and you believe it is inaccurate, write to editors@calgarybiztech.com with what is wrong. That is treated as a factual dispute on the evidence. A demand to remove an accurate statement is not a correction, and it is answered as such.
Related
- Editorial policy sets out the standards a page is corrected against
- Contact covers everything other than corrections
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I report an error on Calgary Biztech?
- Email editors@calgarybiztech.com with the page address, the sentence you are disputing, and what the correct position is. A link to a primary source makes it fast. Send it without one if that is what you have, because a reader saying this does not match what we were told is worth chasing on its own.
- What counts as a material correction?
- Anything that would change what a reader does. A wrong rate, a wrong deadline, a capability claimed that does not exist, a rule described backwards. Those change the page and get a dated note explaining what changed. Typos and broken links are fixed quietly, because nobody made a decision on them.
- Do you ever delete a page instead of correcting it?
- Only when the whole premise is wrong and no correction rescues it, which has a note left in its place. A page quietly disappearing after someone complains about it is the thing this policy exists to prevent.