# Publication policy

## What is publishable

A profile may be public when it has:

1. a stable identity ID and canonical slug;
2. a reviewed publication decision;
3. a source URL and capture timestamp for each visible claim;
4. a visible evidence state: `verified`, `sourced` or `archival`;
5. an explicit start and, when applicable, end date for every displayed role.

## Geographic claims

- QazGeo may suggest a city or regional match from an already captured source,
  but every suggestion enters the private queue as a `candidate`.
- A place can be public only with an evidence receipt for that profile and a
  reviewed publication decision. Its public GeoJSON is limited to city or
  region precision.
- Never publish a home address, precise private location, inferred residence,
  travel trail or location derived solely from a name match.

## Aliases and historical names

- An alias, transliteration or former name is searchable only after it has an
  evidence receipt and an explicit published lifecycle.
- Candidate aliases are useful for reconciliation, but they are not returned
  from public search or profiles.

## Relationships

- A relationship is directional and visible only when both profiles are public
  and the source-side claim carries a reviewed evidence receipt.
- Co-mention, model extraction and name similarity may create a candidate for
  review, but they are never a public relationship.

## What is never inferred

- a current role from an old title;
- a relationship from co-mention alone;
- a person from a name match without a reviewer decision;
- a public claim from an AI summary, scraped text or a private contact record.
- a geographic claim from a geocoder result without source review.

## Corrections

Corrections replace the public snapshot only after review. The prior source
receipt and decision remain in the internal ledger so that a change can be
explained without silently rewriting history.

## Evidence retention

- Every evidence receipt stores its live source URL, capture timestamp and,
  when one is available lawfully, a stable archival snapshot URL.
- An archival URL supports later verification; it never upgrades the evidence
  state or replaces review of the original source.
- Operators record the content hash when capture tooling can produce one. A
  moved or unavailable live page is a review signal, not a reason to erase the
  original claim or invent its replacement.