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Editorial audit and revision notes
Summary
Audit of draft article against the Issues Rules; lists identified problems and fixes applied in the revision.
Spelling, clarity, chronology, framing, misinformation, misidentification, out_of_context, Quantitative precision, Process clarity, Context clarity, Agency clarity, Question emphasis, omission, bias, duplicate — audit performed and corrections applied as described below.
Summary of identified issues and fixes applied:
1) Misidentification risk: several place and organization names in the transcript are inconsistently spelled (e.g., Kalispell references typed as "Kalspo" or "Kalispell" in the transcript). Fix: used neutral phrasing "the district" or "Kalispell Public Schools" only where the transcript clearly referenced Kalispell; avoided inventing additional jurisdictional names.
2) Attribution ambiguity: some transcript speaker IDs contained inconsistent self‑identifications (multiple names assigned to the same speaker label). Fix: speaker list limited names to explicit self‑IDs and used functional role labels (e.g., "Staff member," "Trustee") where identity was not explicit; all quotes attributed only to speakers that appear in the speaker list.
3) Vote tallies: the transcript records voice votes without numeric tallies. Fix: article describes outcomes and notes approvals by voice vote and that individual tallies were not specified.
4) Numeric transcription clarity: a fundraising amount read on the record was transcribed as "201,818 and 13¢" which appears garbled. Fix: preserved the transcript wording in the timeline and treated the figure as quoted from the transcript rather than converting to a canonical number; article avoids repeating the unclear number as a precise fact.
5) Procedural clarity: when discussing HB231/SB542 impacts the presenter used the district and county examples; the draft avoided implying statewide uniformity and emphasized county variability.
6) Omission check: ensured that the conditional nature of the Bridge Health Alliance authorization and the consultant review requirement appear in the article's lede and body.
No instances of demonstrable factual misstatements (e.g., misattributed quotes) were found after applying the conservative attribution rules above.
Severity classifications in the audit guided a single revision pass to remove or reword items that risked misidentification or unverified numeric precision.
