# Final Editorial QA

## Identity and assignment

- **Slot:** October 2, 2026, evening AI architecture, America/New_York
- **Title:** The Source Was Corrected. Did the AI Stop Repeating the Old Answer?
- **Sole destination:** Jared personal authority site
- **Proposed canonical:** `https://jaredmodstorage.github.io/writing/ai-correction-propagation-contract-self-storage/`
- **Publisher owner:** Master Personal Site Authority
- **Non-selected publisher boundary:** Master modBLOG must reject the same title, slug, body and tool as a distinct release.

## Manuscript and source checks

- Body word count: **2,035** whitespace-delimited Markdown tokens from the first article paragraph through the conclusion, excluding title, deck, byline, Sources and Author.
- First- or second-person pronoun scan: zero matches.
- Self-aware phrase scan: zero matches.
- Placeholder scan: zero matches.
- Unverified-role scan: zero matches; bio uses only Chief Operating Officer of modSTORAGE and CEO and Founder of Facily.ai.
- Fictional scenarios and datasets are marked explicitly.
- No customer, deployment, product capability, performance, revenue, occupancy, adoption, partnership, certification, award or recognition claim appears.
- Source register parses as four rows with eight fields each.
- All three cited authoritative URLs returned HTTP 200 on final check; the DOI resolved to the official NIST publication PDF.
- NIST and OWASP limitations remain visible in the manuscript and source register.

## Duplicate and originality checks

- Local corpus: **18** daily article manuscripts checked with 14-word windows; zero matches.
- Public corpus: **249** canonical URLs checked from the current personal-site and modSTORAGE sitemaps; zero failures and zero matches.
- Title, thesis, slug, fictional example and 39-field register are distinct from both October 2 daily lanes and the nearest prior AI articles.
- Active external manuscript boundaries were reviewed; no assigned title, structure, example or tool was reused.

## Tool checks

- Register template: two rows, 39 columns each.
- Fictional register: five rows, 39 columns each.
- Data dictionary states the same 39-column contract and controlled values.
- Checklist preserves correction authority, derivative mapping, disposition, stop condition, readback and truthful closure as separate steps.
- `NOT_APPLICABLE`, `NOT_EVALUATED`, `VERIFIED`, `OUT_OF_SCOPE` and `APPROVED_EXCEPTION` retain distinct meanings.

## Image and render checks

- Governed image ID 058: 3840 x 2560 PNG, disclosed as AI-generated editorial imagery rather than documentary evidence.
- Preview alt text and caption exactly match the governed image notes, with the disclosure appended to the visible caption.
- Responsive previews at 1440, 390 and 320 pixels: zero horizontal overflow and zero failed images.
- PDF: five Letter pages, no encryption, form fields, JavaScript or suspicious objects.
- Every final PDF page was rendered to PNG and inspected at original resolution.
- No clipped text, broken glyph, overlap, blank spill page, orphaned heading, detached caption or incomplete crop was found.
- PDF text readback contains the opening thesis, fictional correction ID, closing argument and exact author bio. The wrapped title passes after whitespace normalization.
- Accessibility limitation: this proof PDF is not tagged; the publisher should preserve the supplied semantic HTML headings and image alt text in the live page.

## Scores and state

- National self-storage trade editor lens: 9.7/10
- AI systems specialist writer lens: 9.7/10
- Sophisticated self-storage operator lens: 9.7/10
- Rendered visual and tool lens: 9.7/10
- **Writer state:** QA-complete and authorized for one publisher handoff only.
- **Not claimed:** repository mutation, deployment, publication, live canonical, feed/sitemap entry, indexing, coverage or recognition.