Reporting an error
Email [email protected] with the page and what is wrong. You do not need to be certain, and you do not need to be polite about it. A reader who tells me an explanation is confusing is giving me useful information even if the explanation is technically accurate.
What happens next
- I acknowledge the report, usually within a few days.
- I check the claim against the relevant manual, research, or institutional guidance.
- If it is wrong, I fix it and add a dated correction note at the foot of the page.
- If it is not wrong but is unclear, I rewrite the passage and update the review date without a correction note, because nothing factual changed.
- If I disagree, I reply and explain why.
What counts as a correction
A correction is a change to something the page asserted as fact: a misstated rule, a misattributed source, a claim the evidence does not support, a broken procedure. These are logged on the page with the date and a short description of what changed.
Rewriting for clarity, restructuring, adding examples, or updating a link are not corrections. They update the review date and nothing else.
Serious errors
If a page contained advice that could have led a student to breach an academic integrity rule or lose marks, the correction note stays at the top of the page rather than the foot, and it stays there permanently. Quietly editing that kind of mistake is not acceptable.
Timing
Factual corrections are made as soon as I can verify them, usually within a week. Corrections take priority over new writing.