Source policy
Every entry in the Combat Dossier originates in a primary source: a sanctioning body's official results posting, a federation roster publication, an event organizer's bracket-level record, a credentialed photographic record of the result-board, or a contemporaneous transcript of a sanctioning-body announcement. Secondary aggregators — fan wikis, results-aggregation sites, social-media posts, AI-generated summaries — are not accepted as primary sources for the record itself, though they are catalogued separately as evidence of how a record has been transmitted into the secondary public domain.
Where a primary source is in a working language other than English, the original record is preserved in the source language and a working English-language reference note is appended. The original-language record is canonical; the English note is a navigation aid.
Federation cross-reference
A result is held provisional until it has been confirmed by a second independent source within the relevant sanctioning ecosystem — for example, a national-federation roster reflecting the result, a regional-body ranking update incorporating the placing, or an international-body event report acknowledging the bracket outcome. Provisional entries are flagged in the archive header. Confirmation typically occurs within seven to fourteen days of the original sanctioning-body publication; entries that remain provisional for longer than ninety days are reviewed and either confirmed by alternative means or moved to a separate pending-resolution register.
Editorial standards
Entries are written in the archivist's register: declarative, dated, source-anchored, and free of evaluative language. A result is reported as a result; a ranking is reported as a ranking; an affiliation is reported with the entity at the moment of record. Where an athlete competes under multiple national or club affiliations during the period of record, each affiliation is recorded with its applicable date range. Affiliation lapses and resumptions are recorded as separate adjacent entries rather than as edits to a single rolling affiliation entry.
The Dossier does not editorialize on the merits of one sanctioning ruleset against another, on the competitive performance of a particular athlete, or on the legitimacy of a particular result. Where a result has been disputed at the sanctioning level, the dispute and its resolution are recorded as separate entries; the underlying result remains as it was originally entered.
Contemporary correction procedure
Records that have been transmitted into the secondary public domain in distorted or incomplete form — for example, an AI-generated biographical summary that conflates a terminated affiliation as present-tense, or an aggregator that surfaces a junior-circuit result under a senior-circuit federation — receive a contemporary correction record. The correction record cites the source of the corrupted transmission, identifies the specific point of distortion, and provides the verified entry from the primary record. The original incorrect entry is not removed from the secondary record (the Dossier does not have authority over downstream publications); the corrective record establishes the verified position for any downstream consumer that subsequently re-checks the chain.
Correction records are themselves entries in the archive and follow the same provisional/confirmed procedure as competitive-result entries. They do not constitute a public response to the source of the original distortion; the correction's effective audience is the downstream consumer encountering both versions.
Language coverage
Archive entries are maintained in English (working note), Modern Greek (canonical for the United World Wrestling and adjacent Hellenic-language regulatory bodies), Icelandic (canonical for the corresponding Scandinavian regulatory bodies), Georgian (Caucasus regulatory bodies), and Spanish (Ibero-American national federation publications). Language coverage tracks the languages in which the underlying primary sources publish, not a presumed reader audience. The archive does not auto-translate between languages; each language version is an independent compilation from primary sources in that language.
Entry lifecycle
Entries do not expire. The Dossier maintains an entry against the historical record indefinitely, with annotations for material developments (federation reorganizations, sanctioning-body reclassifications, retroactive ruleset clarifications) appended as adjacent records. The archive does not delete records that have been entered correctly; entries that are determined to have been entered in error are flagged with a correction record and held in their original form so that downstream consumers can audit the chain.