Draft corrections and versioning policy — disposition

§3Disposition and amendments

§3.1Disposition table

Table 1. Every submission with its disposition. Each row links to the submission in full.

§3.2Summary by disposition

Table 2. Counts by disposition, with the meaning of each.

§3.3Resulting amendments

1. The threshold between a correction and a new version is drawn too high — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/001. The versioning threshold is now stated by category: a change to a certainty rating, an effect estimate or a conclusion produces a new version at a new address, and every other change is a logged correction that states the previous wording.
2. Where a document is generated rather than authored, the reader should be told — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/002. Every generated record now carries a notice stating that its prose frame is templated and that its included studies, summary of findings and certainty rating are computed from the underlying records, so that the reader can see which parts were authored and…
3. No term limit applies to membership of the assessment committee — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/003. Members are appointed for a four-year term renewable once. Appointment and expiry dates are published in the register of members.
4. The materiality threshold for a declarable holding is set too high — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/004. The materiality threshold is lowered and is now expressed as a proportion of the declarer's holdings as well as an absolute figure, so that a holding material to the person is declarable whether or not it is large in absolute terms.
5. Nothing states what happens to the document set if the Institute ceases to operate — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/005. The governance document now records that the document set is licensed for reuse and mirroring, and names the deposit arrangement under which it would be preserved.
6. Quantitative claims are reproduced without the method that produced them — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/006. Every quantitative claim now carries the determination that produced it at the point of use, and figures obtained by non-comparable methods are no longer presented in the same row or sentence.
7. A party that is assessed and also sponsors should be disclosed on its own assessment — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/008. The disclosure now appears as a numbered section on the dossier of any assessed party that sponsors the site, as well as on the funding page.
8. An industry submission should be identifiable without reading the declared interest — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/009. A submission made on behalf of a company is now identified as an industry submission on its face, at the head of the submission and in the disposition table, in addition to the declared interest published in full beneath it.
9. The policy does not say who may make a submission — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/010. The policy now states that any person may make a submission, that no affiliation is required, and that the declaration requirement applies identically to every respondent.
10. A declared interest is published without being tested — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/011. The policy now states that declarations are published as made, that the Institute does not investigate them, and that where a declaration appears incomplete the respondent is asked to complete it before publication. That the Institute does not verify is now…
11. The standards applying to advertising placement are not published — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/012. The placement standards are now published: what a unit may claim, the labelling required, the separation from assessed content, and the grounds on which a placement is refused or withdrawn. Commercial terms are not published and the reason is stated.
12. The terms on which the documents may be reused are not stated — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/013. The reuse terms are now stated explicitly on the legal page and in the document footer, permitting quotation and reproduction with attribution and the document version, and requiring that any reproduction carry the certainty rating that accompanied the quoted…
13. The position of a contributor who withdraws consent is not stated — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/014. The policy now states that a contributor may withdraw from the register at any time and that the register entry is removed, while a signed submission already published remains published, because the consultation record is a record of what was said and by…
14. The search date is not on the face of the document — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/015. The search date is now printed adjacent to every certainty rating and is carried in the document metadata, so that the interval between the search and the reading is visible without reference to the methods section.
15. Disagreement within the assessment committee is not visible — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/016. A ratification record is now published with every document stating whether the assessment was unanimous, and a member may record a dissenting statement which is published with the document rather than in minutes.
16. No period is stated within which a submission will be answered — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/018. Receipt is acknowledged within five working days and a substantive response is published within eight weeks of the window closing. Where that period cannot be met the reason is published in its place.
17. A party criticised in an assessment should have a right of reply — arising from DRAFT-CORRECTIONS-/019. A standing correction route is now published, corrections of fact are assessed and applied at any time with the change recorded in the amendment log, and a submission of substance received outside a window is held and published in the next comment period on…

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