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Audit of draft article vs transcript and style rules

Village Board of Trustees, Village of Depew · April 29, 2026

Summary

Checklist of issues found during review of draft article and their severity; article was revised to correct or mitigate these.

spelling: [ {"type":"spelling","description":"Transcript contains misspellings: 'Cheetahoga' for Cheektowaga; 'The Pew' for Depew; 'Mayor Peterson' and 'mayor Peter Spence' both appear (inconsistent).","severity":"medium"} ]

clarity: [ {"type":"clarity","description":"Numeric tax-rate figures were garbled in the transcript and needed explicit flagging rather than being reported as precise figures.","severity":"high"} ]

chronology: []

framing: []

misinformation: [ {"type":"misinformation","description":"Potentially misleading numeric representation if garbled tax rates are taken as exact; resolved by noting garbling and recommending verification with official minutes.","severity":"high"} ]

misidentification: [ {"type":"misidentification","description":"Transcript includes inconsistent mayor naming and roll-call response labels; the article avoids naming the mayor to prevent error.","severity":"high"} ]

out_of_context: []

Quantitative precision: [ {"type":"quantitative_precision","description":"Transcript's tax-rate numerals are not clearly readable; article marks these as 'garbled in the record' and does not assert corrected values.","severity":"high"} ]

Process clarity: []

Context clarity: []

Agency clarity: []

Question emphasis: []

omission: []

bias: []

duplicate: []

Attribution Lock: [ {"type":"attribution_lock","description":"All direct quotes and attributions in the article are restricted to speakers identified in the transcript speaker list; where names were inconsistent, role labels were used.","severity":"medium"} ]

Transcript Segment Error: []

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