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Audit of draft article vs transcript and style rules
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: []
