Editorial standards
Texas Water Sources editorial standards
These standards govern substantive public guides and policy pages. They are designed to make publisher identity, sourcing, uncertainty, update dates, limitations, and corrections visible instead of implied.
Primary questionWhat standards govern sourcing, attribution, update dates, limitations, and corrections?
Primary official sources come first
Texas Water Sources prefers current primary pages from Texas agencies, the Texas Legislature, groundwater conservation districts, and other official authorities suited to the question. Secondary summaries may help orientation, but they do not replace the official source used for a public factual claim.
Source access dates stay with the research
Source names, direct HTTPS links, attribution, and review dates are retained. A review date records when the source and the page’s use of it were substantively checked. It does not imply that an external database or policy cannot change later.
Candidate records are not confirmed property facts
A map point, well report, district layer, permit, recorded name, or nearby record is described as a candidate until reliable identifiers and documents support a match. The site does not present proximity or a shared name as proof of ownership, property association, appurtenance, or transfer.
The site does not make legal conclusions
The site does not select disclosure answers or determine title, ownership, severance, reservation, transferability, permitting, compliance, or legal effect. Unresolved matters stay visible for the official authority or appropriate Texas professional.
Published claims remain source-bound
Substantive factual statements must be supportable by the cited official sources. Missing evidence is not filled with assumptions, and a nearby or similarly named record is not presented as a confirmed property fact.
Attribution and limitations remain visible
Substantive guidance identifies the responsible official source, preserves a direct source link and access date, and states the limits of what the source can establish. Facts, dates, credentials, reviewers, contact channels, and source coverage are not invented.
Material updates change the review date
A material update includes a new or changed official source, a corrected factual statement, a changed limitation, or a substantive research-guidance revision. These changes update the last-substantively-updated date.
Cosmetic edits do not create false freshness
Spelling, punctuation, formatting, and minor layout changes do not reset the substantive review date when the underlying research has not been reviewed again.
Corrections are evaluated and documented
Potential factual errors and broken or changed official sources are checked against the current authority. Material corrections are documented in the affected page’s review record or revision note. The correction policy also states when no verified public submission channel exists.
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What this page cannot establish
- Editorial review cannot make an incomplete public record complete or turn a nearby result into a confirmed property fact.
- The standards do not create a professional-client relationship or replace review by the official authority or an appropriate Texas professional.
- A review date records a substantive source and content check; it is not a promise that an external system will remain unchanged.