Last updated June 2026. How The Monsoon Wire handles errors and updates.

We would rather be right than first, and we would rather fix an error openly than quietly. For a publication that reports figures, that is the whole of its credit. Here is how it works.

We do correct errors

If a page is wrong, tell us, using the "suggest a correction" link at the foot of the page or by writing to [email protected]. We treat your report as a pointer, not a patch: we go back to the named source and check the figure or the claim ourselves. We do not simply paste in what a reader sends, because the open web is full of confident errors and the record has to hold up on its own.

• If the claim holds, we revise the page and mark it: "Revised following reader reports", with the date. The change is visible, not silent.
• If it does not hold, we leave the page and, where it helps, explain why.

News is a record

A news item is a record of a moment. We do not rewrite it when the story later develops; instead a later news item follows up. The one substantive edit a news item can carry is a visible, dated correction when a fact in it was wrong, a misread figure, a wrong unit, a wrong date.

We do not reward gaming

Credit for a correction (a mention under your pseudonymous handle) is earned only when an independent check confirms a real, material change. Trivial or invalid "corrections" earn nothing. This keeps the corrections channel honest rather than a way to farm recognition.

Removals

When we remove a page or a contribution, we record a reason. If a removed page is one you relied on, or you think the removal was a mistake, write to [email protected].