This page sets out how AiTimeline sources, reviews, labels and corrects what it publishes. It is written to be held to.

1. Sourcing standard

Every timeline entry must be traceable to a source a reader can check. We work in this order of preference:

  1. Primary record — the Gazette of India, Acts and Bills as passed, court judgments and orders, PIB and ministry releases, regulator filings, official statistical series, company annual reports.
  2. Institutional secondary — parliamentary research bodies such as PRS, multilateral agencies (WHO, IEA, UN Tourism, IPCC), national research councils, recognised standards bodies.
  3. Established journalism — reporting from outlets with a masthead, a corrections policy and named reporters.
  4. Reference works — used to orient and cross-check, never as the sole support for a contested claim.

Each article ends with a “Sources & further reading” list naming the references it was checked against, and repeats them in the page’s structured data so machines can follow them too.

2. Confirmed, claimed, expected

The most common failure in timeline writing is flattening three different kinds of statement into one voice. We keep them apart, explicitly and visibly:

  • Confirmed — the event happened and the primary record shows it. Stated plainly, with a date.
  • Reported / claimed / alleged — asserted by an identifiable party but not established. Always attributed to whoever is asserting it. An allegation is never written as a finding, and a charge is never written as a conviction.
  • Expected / projected / targeted — has not happened yet. Labelled as a target or forecast, with whoever set it named.

Most timelines on this site carry a dedicated panel making this split explicit for the topic at hand.

3. Living documents

A timeline about an unfinished story is never finished either. Articles on live topics are revisited as the record moves — a Bill becomes an Act, a target is met or missed, a case is decided. Every article displays the date it was last reviewed. A review date changing without the content changing means we checked and found nothing had moved.

We do not restate the publication date to make old work look new.

4. Corrections

Write to corrections@aitimeline.in with the article URL, the specific claim, and a source. What happens next:

  • Factual error — corrected as soon as it is verified, and the review date is updated.
  • Missing context — the entry is expanded rather than deleted.
  • Substantive change to a claim about a person or organisation — the change is noted on the page itself, not made silently.
  • Disputed but not disproved — the dispute is added and attributed; we do not remove a sourced claim because someone objects to it.

We aim to act on verified corrections the same day.

5. Health, legal, financial and political topics

Where a timeline touches health, law, money or living people, additional rules apply:

  • We describe what guidance and law say; we do not give medical, legal or investment advice, and we say so on the page.
  • We do not invent expert reviewers. Where an article says it was reviewed, that means reviewed against the sources listed — not signed off by a clinician or a lawyer we do not employ.
  • Claims about living people are attributed, dated and confined to the public record.
  • Political coverage describes positions and events without endorsing any party or candidate.

6. Use of AI, stated plainly

AI tooling is used in producing this site for drafting, structuring and research assistance. It does not decide what is published or what is true. Every article is reviewed by a person against its sources before it goes live, and the editor named on the about page is accountable for it. We disclose this because we would want it disclosed to us.

7. Independence

AiTimeline is independently owned and funded. We take no payment for coverage, we do not publish sponsored posts presented as editorial, and no source or subject is given approval over a timeline before publication. If that ever changes, this page changes first and any commercial relationship is disclosed on the article itself.

8. Images and rights

We use openly licensed and public-domain imagery, or imagery we hold rights to. If you believe an image here is used incorrectly, write to editor@aitimeline.in and we will remove or correct the attribution while we check.

9. Who to contact

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