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Reference Desk: Standing Records, Maintained Against Their Sources

Not articles. Standing pages on single subjects, built from primary sources, each carrying the date it was last checked and rewritten when the facts move.

A news story answers what happened. A large share of what people actually search for asks something else: what is required, where does this stand, what is the number today. Those questions do not have a publication date, and answering them with a dated article means the answer starts decaying the moment it goes up.

So these pages are not articles. Each one is a standing record on a single subject, built from primary sources, carrying the date a person last checked it against those sources, and rewritten rather than republished when the underlying facts move. Every one of them exists because we could see the demand for it in our own search data before we wrote a word.

The pages

Page What it answers Update cadence
UK crypto exchange license What FCA registration requires now, what changes when the FSMA regime starts on 25 October 2027, and what the regulator’s own determination data does and does not show. Monthly, after the FCA data release
CLARITY Act status Where H.R. 3633 actually stands, the vote arithmetic, the open disputes, and the calendar that constrains all of it. Weekly while live, and on any floor action
China gold reserves The official monthly figure from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the twelve-month record, and the limits of a reported number. Monthly, first week
Crypto wallet hacks The Coldcard entropy failure: what the defect was, which seeds are at risk, what to do, and why the published loss figures disagree. Weekly while the incident is live
Nvidia Jetson Orin NX What the module is, what the TOPS headline actually counts, what it costs, and the export-control gap behind its appearance in Russian weapons. Monthly for specs, weekly while the weapons story is live
Pump.fun tokenomics PUMP’s fixed supply, the monthly unlock through 2029, and whether the burn is keeping pace with it. Monthly, after each unlock

The standard these are held to

  • Primary sources first. A regulator’s own page, a bill’s own record, a central bank’s own release, a vendor’s own advisory. Where we rely on secondary reporting we name the outlet and the date.
  • The check date is published. Every page says when a person last read it against the source. A maintained page that cannot prove it is maintained is just an old page.
  • Disagreement is reported, not resolved. When three trackers give three numbers, the page shows all three and explains what each is counting. Picking the tidiest one and presenting it as the answer is the failure mode these pages exist to avoid.
  • What the data does not say gets its own section. Most of the harm in reference material comes from a correct figure carrying a claim it cannot support.
  • Corrections are welcome and acted on. If a figure here disagrees with its source, the source is right. Tell us at contact.

More are coming, chosen the same way: by measured demand we can already see, not by what we would enjoy writing. Our method for the rest of the site is set out in Editorial Standards and the Verification Center.