How ANOMALY Works
ANOMALY is designed to preserve what sources claim without turning those claims into unquestioned facts. Reliability, verification, editorial readiness, and classification are separate layers.
Source reliability
Reliability tiers describe the provenance and quality of a source or edition. They do not automatically promote every statement inside that source to corroborated fact. ANOMALY avoids treating a numeric score as self-explanatory precision.
Claim verification
Reported, corroborated, disputed, explained and hoax describe the support for an individual claim. Corroboration requires evidence beyond merely appearing in a reputable source.
Editorial status
Draft, reviewed and published describe archive workflow. A record can be well sourced yet remain draft while its terminology, citation, or context is being checked.
Classification
Craft and entity families group recurring reported morphology for navigation. Family membership does not prove common manufacture, biology, ancestry, technology, or origin.
How sources relate to claims
A citation is not always supportive. ANOMALY records whether a source supports, disputes, or merely contextualizes a claim so disagreements remain visible.
Interpretation rule
When sources disagree, ANOMALY prefers displaying the disagreement over averaging values or silently choosing one account. The archive is a research map of evidence and testimony, not a declaration that every archived phenomenon is anomalous.