The source-request loop paid for itself immediately — two of the five
corrected something rather than confirming it.
The Economist piece settles V1, the riskiest live claim, but our note
had over-claimed: truncating the scale is its *first* example, not one
of "several." Note rewritten to quote her. The same article turned out
to contain a dual-axis chart she caught herself on, now cited.
Datawrapper's color-scale part 1 refuted the assumption behind a queued
sin outright: it makes no argument against rainbow scales and endorses
multi-hue sequential gradients. The rainbow entry is now marked as
having no verified source at all, rather than ample backing.
The dual-axis post independently draws the same line we drew last turn
— of four uses only the alternative-scale case survives, their example
being F against C — and led to two references worth more than the blog
post: the Isenberg et al. study that tested dual-scale charts, and Few's
article working through the cases. Both ship without full metadata
rather than guessed metadata; queued.
Pie and stacked posts gave verbatim support, plus one correction: a
100%-stacked chart has two readable baselines, not one.
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Datawrapper's blog 403s, Medium is unreachable, JSTOR wants a session,
and a search snippet is a paraphrase rather than a source's words. The
failure mode is guessing, or silently writing a weaker page.
docs/source-requests.md now holds a fetch queue with the specific
question each link needs to answer, plus a register of claims already
live on the site that rest on recall rather than a page anyone opened —
starting with the riskiest, an inference about which mistakes the
Economist piece owns up to. docs/sources/ is the drop zone.
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