Editorial standard

Evidence before a streak.

An empty publication day is preferable to a confident error.

Who belongs in the archive

We prioritize deceased or historical women whose courage, achievement, invention, leadership, first, or overlooked contribution is documented. Living adult public figures require stronger evidence. We do not speculate about private life, health, identity, or motives.

The evidence gate

Every publishable article needs at least three genuinely independent sources. One must be primary, scholarly, governmental, archival, museum, university, or comparably authoritative. Two independent sources must corroborate the central account. Syndicated or copied reports count once.

Claims such as “first,” stolen credit, discrimination, persecution, or disputed attribution need direct support from at least two sources. Wikipedia, social posts, unsourced listicles, and AI-generated pages may suggest a lead but cannot serve as final evidence.

Local evidence and uncertainty

We research local-language records when available, retain original-language names and translated titles, and record spelling, date, nationality, and scholarly disagreements. Inaccessible load-bearing sources, contradictory evidence, unsupported superlatives, or insufficient documentation put a draft in quarantine.

Country rotation

The registry contains the 193 UN member states plus Palestine and Vatican City, ordered by common English name. Each appears once per cycle. If a scheduled country lacks a verified article, the earliest verified reserve publishes and the missed country is marked deferred. It receives priority in later research.

AI assistance and human-readable provenance

Automated tools help discover candidates, expand multilingual queries, organize evidence, and draft. Deterministic checks then verify source accessibility, duplicate domains, claim links, licenses, rotation, budget, and publication state. Every story carries its own disclosure, bibliography, uncertainty notes, and correction history.