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Evidence and Confidence Standard

Every important technical claim should show how it is known.

Claim status

  • Verified — reproduced directly or supported by authoritative primary evidence.
  • Community confirmed — independently reported by multiple credible sources, but not automatically eligible for publication as a working procedure.
  • Not Verified Yet — plausible, sourced, or community-reported material awaiting qualifying reproduction. It belongs in a research queue and must not be written as a working guide.
  • Personally observed — observed on a documented device but not yet independently reproduced.
  • Hypothesis — plausible interpretation awaiting testing.
  • Disproven — tested and found false or contradicted by stronger evidence.
  • Historical — preserved because it once existed or may illuminate prior device behavior; not represented as currently functional.
  • Unknown — open question with insufficient evidence.

Working-guide publication rule

Only a procedure that has been reproduced successfully with an identified model, hardware revision when available, firmware and tool versions, date, evidence, expected result, and recovery information may be published as Verified Working.

Community confirmation is valuable evidence, but it does not by itself promote a procedure into the working-guide library. Community-reported procedures remain clearly labeled outside that library until qualifying verification is complete.

Required claim record

Claim:
Status:
Model / revision:
Firmware / software versions:
Source or experiment:
Date checked:
Contributor:
Confidence:
Reproduction steps:
Expected result:
Actual result:
Evidence path or archive:
Recovery / rollback:
Contradictory evidence:
Notes:

Confidence

Use plain-language confidence: high, moderate, or low. Confidence should reflect evidence quality, reproducibility, device-revision coverage, and whether alternative explanations remain.

Sources

Prefer primary sources: direct measurements, captures, photographs, manuals, firmware, regulatory filings, manufacturer documents, and reproducible experiments. Secondary sources remain valuable when clearly labeled and attributed.

Promotion path

A claim or procedure can move through the repository only when the evidence record justifies the change:

Not Verified Yet -> Community confirmed -> Verified
Not Verified Yet -> Disproven
Hypothesis -> Not Verified Yet, Verified, or Disproven
Verified -> Historical or Disproven when later evidence requires correction

Popularity is not verification. Reproducibility is verification.

Corrections

Do not silently erase disproven work. Preserve the former claim, mark it disproven, explain why, and link the stronger evidence. This protects the reasoning trail and prevents repeated mistakes.