{
  "schema": "qaeda.contribution-guide.v1",
  "canonical": "https://qaeda.org/contribute",
  "updated": "2026-09-02",
  "purpose": "Structured, evidence-bearing challenges and source contributions without a public comment feed or server-side submission database.",
  "submission_types": [
    {"id":"factual-correction","label":"Factual correction","minimum":"Identify the narrow factual proposition, the page or claim ID, and evidence that contradicts or materially qualifies it."},
    {"id":"counterevidence","label":"Counterevidence","minimum":"Provide a source or dataset that weakens a published claim and explain the inferential conflict."},
    {"id":"source-addition","label":"Source addition","minimum":"Provide a primary source, credible scholarship, dataset, archive item, or provenance lead and state what public question it bears on."},
    {"id":"provenance-attribution","label":"Provenance or attribution dispute","minimum":"Identify the wording or attribution at issue, the earliest or strongest artifact you can supply, and the chain that connects it."},
    {"id":"counterargument","label":"Counterargument","minimum":"State the strongest opposing argument in a form its proponents would recognize and identify whether your disagreement is factual, inferential, or normative."},
    {"id":"methodology","label":"Methodology or taxonomy critique","minimum":"Identify the method, status, topic, definition, or audit criterion that should change and give a concrete reason or test."}
  ],
  "review_principles": [
    "Specificity outranks volume.",
    "Primary and near-primary evidence is preferred for disputed attribution or current factual claims.",
    "Normative disagreement is welcome but is not mislabeled as factual correction.",
    "A source fingerprint proves file identity, not factual correctness.",
    "Public synthesis remains non-operational and does not reproduce instructions that materially facilitate harm.",
    "Security vulnerabilities belong through the security disclosure route rather than the editorial contribution route."
  ],
  "privacy": {
    "server_submission": false,
    "site_database_storage": false,
    "draft_generation": "local-browser",
    "delivery": "user-initiated email or copied template",
    "warning": "Do not include passwords, private credentials, unnecessary personal data, or material whose disclosure would endanger another person. Ordinary email metadata may be processed by email providers outside QAEDA.org."
  }
}