Corrections

This policy is adopted while the register above stands at zero entries. The terms below are fixed in advance and will be applied to the first entry as written.

Every correction is filed in one of three classes. The class governs how quickly it is closed and nothing else; all three are published in full, in the same register, with the same detail.

A correction is closed when it is published in the corrections register in full. The targets run from the moment the error is established, whether it was found by a reader or in-house.

• Transcription error Two business days
• Misattribution Five business days
• Coverage gap Disclosed immediately; closed when the source permits

A transcription error closes fast because it is checkable against a document already in hand. A misattribution requires establishing the correct subject. A coverage gap has no honest fixed target, because closing it depends on an authority publishing something it has not yet published; so it is disclosed the moment it is known, with its reason, rather than held until it can be announced with its remedy.

Corrections are append-only. Nothing is amended in place and nothing is quietly removed. The erroneous statement remains legible in the sealed edition where it was made, and the correction is appended to the register beneath it. A sealed edition is never reopened, never supplemented and never re-dated.

Every correction names three things. What the record said, what it now says, and why the earlier statement was wrong — together with the range of citation dates it affects, so that a party who cited the record can tell at a glance whether their citation falls inside it.

Register is the disclosure. Every correction is entered in it, dated and linked to the rows it affects. A publication that corrects nothing is not thereby accurate; it may simply not be checking. The entries stand in public on their own, and are not summarized into a figure.

A correction completes a citation; it never invalidates one. The stability commitment holds: a reader who follows a reference in five years reads what the citing party read. The correction is the additional thing they read alongside it, and a party relying on a cited record is expected to read the corrections register with it.

Every entry in the corrections register is written to the template below and to no other form. Only the bracketed slots vary.

Correction (<date>): The <date> <publication> for <subject> cited <what>. This was an error in <cause>; the correct <what> is <correction>. The previous erroneous entry is preserved below. <The rule/step that changed>.

Every entry names a root cause and the rule or step that changed. Naming the typo alone would record that a character was wrong and conceal why a wrong character reached a sealed edition. The cause is stated as a cause — the read, the join, the transcription step, the scope that was drawn too narrowly — and the entry closes with the rule or step altered so that the same cause does not produce a second entry. Where nothing was changed, the entry says that, and says why the cause is not expected to recur.

The erroneous entry is preserved beneath the correction and stays legible. Nothing is substituted, and no entry is amended in place.

An error found by a reader is worth more to the record than one found in-house, and is treated accordingly. The most useful report names the authority, the identifier the authority uses, the date the record bears, and what the authority’s own register says instead — the same four things Authentication asks a reader to gather.

Send it by way of contact. No correction is closed without being published, and no report is answered privately in place of being published.

A person who claims to have been defamed by something published here may request a correction, clarification or retraction under Chapter 73, Subchapter B of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code — the Defamation Mitigation Act. This section states where such a request is received and how it is handled. It is a statement of Oquendo & Company’s own practice; it is not legal advice, and the statute governs over anything said here.

What a request should contain. The statute asks that a request be sufficiently specific to enable Oquendo & Company to understand which statement is complained of and why it is said to be false. In practice that means: the publication and its date, the exact statement complained of, the statement of fact said to be false, and why — with the authority’s own record where one exists.

Timing. Under Section 73.055 a person may maintain an action for defamation only if a timely and sufficient request has been made, or a correction, clarification or retraction has been published; a request is timely if made within the period of limitation, and a person who does not request within 90 days of receiving knowledge of the publication may not recover exemplary damages. The statute allows Oquendo & Company to ask in writing for the evidence of the alleged falsity (Section 73.056), which it then gives the requester 30 days to supply; where Oquendo & Company asks for particulars, Oquendo & Company issues that request within 30 days of receiving the original request. A correction Oquendo & Company publishes is timely under the statute if it is published within 30 days of receiving the request or the particulars.

What Oquendo & Company does with one. Every request is logged on receipt and acknowledged. It is then assessed on the same footing as any other report of an error — against the authority’s own record, under the classes and close-time targets above. If the record was wrong it is corrected and published in the register like any other correction, with no special handling and no quieter treatment because it arrived as a legal request. If the record was right Oquendo & Company says so in writing and says why. Making a request does not, on its own, establish that anything was wrong, and Oquendo & Company does not withdraw a published statement it believes to be accurate.

A correction never changes a sealed edition. The edition is cited exactly as it was issued, by its designator, and the correction is cited alongside it by its register id and its date — so that a reader can see both what was relied on and what has since been said about it.

The example carries O&C-2026-09, sealed September 1, 2026; the correction id and date are illustrative. The reference form itself is set out at The Citation Standard.

The edition as issued

Texas Water Development Board (Water Data for Texas), measurement record, 2026-08-01 — as recorded in Oquendo & Company, Texas Infrastructure Ledger, Edition September 1, 2026.

The same edition, with the correction that touches it

Texas Water Development Board (Water Data for Texas), measurement record, 2026-08-01 — as recorded in Oquendo & Company, Texas Infrastructure Ledger, Edition September 1, 2026, Correction C-2026-001 (September 1, 2026).

A sealed edition and an entry in the corrections register remain addressable at their designator and their id indefinitely. A designator is never reassigned and never renamed: an address carried in a citation someone has already issued is part of the record, and renaming it would falsify their document.

A retracted edition is not withdrawn from the record. It keeps its address and reads as retracted on its face, so that a reader who follows an old reference reaches the thing that was relied on and the notice that it was retracted, together. Nothing is removed from the register, and no entry in it is amended in place; an entry found to be wrong receives its own correcting entry.