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Lora Lee Roberts

Editorial, Sourcing, and Corrections Policy

Family-curated and transparent

LoraLeeRoberts.com is a family-curated archive, not an independent news publication. That relationship should be visible in the footer, About page, and structured data.

Evidence hierarchy

The archive prefers evidence in this order:

  1. Original documents and physical records
  2. First-person accounts from Lora or direct participants
  3. Court, corporate, and government records
  4. Contemporary reporting and official organization records
  5. Reputable secondary sources
  6. Business-directory profiles
  7. Family recollections
  8. Archived or scraped biographies used only as research leads

Lower-ranked sources can still be valuable, but the language must match their strength.

How claims are written

  • Publicly verified claim: state directly and cite it.
  • Family-supplied claim: use "according to family records" or "the Roberts family recalls."
  • Disputed or incomplete claim: explain the discrepancy.
  • Unsupported superlative: do not publish it.
  • Exact date with only an approximate source: publish the period, not a false precision.

Corrections

Corrections should be acknowledged promptly and logged internally. A material public correction should include:

  • What changed
  • The date of the change
  • The source supporting the change
  • Whether the earlier wording was wrong, incomplete, or ambiguous

Do not silently rewrite a major factual claim after it has been challenged.

Privacy

The archive does not publish private contact details, government identifiers, financial-account information, unredacted signatures, medical information about living people, or details about minors without consent.

Artificial intelligence

AI may assist with transcription, organization, and draft copy, but a human editor must review names, dates, quotations, captions, and claims against the underlying record. No AI-generated image should be presented as a historical photograph or as Lora's original artwork.

The archive may link to related people and organizations when the connection is relevant. It will not create hidden links, paid link schemes, keyword-stuffed pages, duplicate name-variant pages, or mass-produced articles whose primary purpose is manipulating search results.

Search visibility should come from useful original material: artwork, interviews, primary documents, accurate captions, clear authorship, and a site structure that readers can understand.

Rights and permissions

Possession of a photograph or clipping does not always equal ownership of copyright. The archive should record who created each item, who owns the physical item, who owns reproduction rights, and what permission has been granted.