How OTAKU COMPASS verifies information — Editorial Policy
Every fact on OTAKU COMPASS is checked against at least two independent sources before publication, dated ("as of"), and corrected in public when wrong — this page explains exactly how.
Every fact on OTAKU COMPASS — a date, a price, a name, a claim — passes the same checks before it reaches this page. This is exactly how.
Our verification rules
- Two independent sources. Every number, date, price and proper noun is checked against at least two independent sources, always favoring primary ones — official organizers, venues, operators, filings — over aggregators or other blogs.
- Dated facts. Prices, schedules and availability change constantly. Wherever it matters, we write "as of <date>" so you know exactly when a fact was last confirmed, not just that it was confirmed once.
- Independent review before publishing. A second reviewer, working separately from whoever wrote the draft, actively tries to disprove each claim rather than rubber-stamp it. Anything that can't be verified twice is removed, or rewritten as "confirm with the official source" instead of stated as fact.
- Living pages, not frozen ones. Pages about events, venues and prices are updated when the underlying facts change, including after the fact — a page never keeps posing as "upcoming" once something has already happened.
- Editorial independence. Venues, organizers and advertisers cannot pay to change what we publish about them. Where advertising exists on this site, it is kept separate from the editorial verdict.
Corrections
We get things wrong sometimes — no verification process is perfect. When we do, we fix the page itself rather than quietly editing it away, and we treat every reader-found error as useful information, not an inconvenience.
OTAKU COMPASS is one of a family of independent, single-topic publications that share this same verification standard.
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FAQ
- Why does OTAKU COMPASS require two sources for every fact?
- A single source can be outdated, wrong, or repeating another site's mistake. Confirming independently — ideally against a primary source like the organizer or operator — catches errors before they reach you, which is the point of reading a dedicated guide instead of a random search result.
- What happens when OTAKU COMPASS gets something wrong?
- We correct the page directly as soon as we know, rather than leaving it or quietly deleting the error. If you spot something that looks wrong, that report is exactly the kind of signal our verification process is built to use.