Research methodology

Material on this website is published only after a person with permission to publish has approved it. Drafts, fact-checking notes and machine-assisted text are not placed on the public site.

Editors separate three kinds of statement: a fact SHRMG has documented; a claim attributed to a named source; and an allegation that has not been verified. The page says which of these the reader is looking at.

Where a person or institution is the subject of a serious criticism, the editor records whether a response was requested and whether one was received. Silence is not described as an admission.

Confidential sources are not identified. Information that could expose a person to harm is not published merely because it exists in a file. People are not turned into public profiles from unpublished notes.

This page describes how the website handles publication. It does not stand in for a research report that SHRMG has not published here.

No automated summary, allegation or organizational statement is published without human review.