How review decisions are made
Metrics help, but the real goal is legibility: families and contributors should understand how records are reviewed, corrected, or suppressed.
Review is governed by rules, not vibes
These principles show up in the policy pages, the help center, and the actual support workflows.
Accuracy over speed
Privacy by default
Explainability in every review
Appeals remain open when evidence changes
Operational signals we publish
Numbers alone cannot explain judgment, but they can show the scale and discipline of the review system.
Records reviewed
12.4M
+6.1% month over month
Human-reviewed memorials and corrections processed through the ledger.
Corrections accepted
42,180
+9.4% month over month
Evidence-backed changes merged into public records.
Records suppressed
1,204
0.01% of searchable records
Suppression is used for privacy, safety, and accuracy exceptions.
False-positive merge rate
8.3%
-1.2 pts vs. previous quarter
Duplicate warnings that reviewers chose not to merge.
What those metrics mean in practice
A few representative cases that explain why records get held, corrected, or suppressed.
Dockside ridge: record held because a late-family correction disputed the original memorial reading.
Wrong identity: page suppressed after a duplicate companion marker was matched to the wrong person.
Recent death: search result removed while the privacy review window remained active.