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Editorial audit and revision notes (internal)
Summary
Internal audit flagged transcription errors, numeric uncertainties and a few ambiguous speaker labels; final articles were revised to (a) use only names and roles present in the transcript, (b) call out uncertain numerical figures as reported, and (c) avoid attributing statements not present in the record.
Audit summary: The draft review identified the following issues and fixes applied in final articles:
- Spelling/Name clarity: The transcript contains typographical errors (e.g., "Phil and Head Island"). Final text normalizes obvious place names conservatively (e.g., "Hilton Head Island") only where context within the transcript made the intended name clear; otherwise the transcript wording was preserved.
- Quantitative precision: Some figures (for example the reported $11,008,865 for a Bluffton repair) appear anomalous. The article reports such numbers as "reported" and flags them for verification rather than asserting them as independently confirmed.
- Misidentification risk: Attribution is limited to speakers who self-identified or were explicitly identified in the transcript. Where a speaker was not named but their role was clear (e.g., the meeting Chair or a resident), the article uses the functional label required by guidance.
- Chronology and framing: The timeline was re-checked against segment boundaries so each article’s provenance lines show the first and last relevant transcript segments. No article changes the order of events or implies decisions that were not recorded.
- Omission check: Public comments expressing hardship and calls for immediate action were explicitly included in the community-impact article; staff commitments (pumps staged, berm repair this week, follow-up from staff) were recorded verbatim where possible.
The articles were revised once to address these findings; no new factual claims were added beyond the transcript.
