Arctic Tracker / What changed / Finding

Finding: unsigned machine-drafted prose and references

Status: withheld pending expert review. The material exists in the deposit and is not served by the application.

What Reviewer 1 found

Reference lists were identical across species pages. The front-end binding fell back to a shared query instead of the per-species identifier. The underlying per-species reference data were not themselves corrupted; the rendering layer was.

What the rebuild does

There are now no reference lists on species pages until a named subject expert has reviewed and signed them. The same gate applies to narrative sections. Pretending the section was repaired while still serving unsigned machine output would repeat the defect under a different name.

343 narrative sections and their reference bindings exist in the deposit (tables/species_narratives.csv). None carries an approved review (tables/narrative_review.csv and tables/profile_review.csv are empty). The count of withheld material is disclosed on every affected species page.

The application role cannot read unsigned narratives or unsigned reference bindings. It can read counts of pending review, which is enough to disclose the withholding without leaking the text.

Why withholding rather than caveat

Machine-drafted text that nobody has checked is not displayed with a disclaimer. It is not displayed. A caveat next to unreviewed prose invites the reader to treat the prose as evidence with an asterisk. Withholding states the standard instead.

Related

• Application: /changes#unsigned-prose
• Deposit: tables/species_narratives.csv (343 rows), review tables (0 rows)
• API views: arctic_api.species_narrative, arctic_api.species_reference, arctic_api.species_pending_review

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