Monthly Journal
MO-003
The Month the Archive Stopped Growing
Nothing added, three things corrected
Month
Correction month
No new category and no new entry. The month was spent checking what was already written, and three things in it turned out to be wrong.
What Was Added
Nothing. This is the first month since the archive opened in which the number of entries did not move.
What Was Checked
Every dated claim in the first section, against whatever evidence existed outside the archive — shipping records, mill invoices, the studio calendar.
What Was Wrong
| Claim | Recorded | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| A batch held | Nine days | Four days |
| First public read | One date | One week later |
| Categories in section one | Twenty | Eighteen |
Three errors in roughly ninety dated claims. That rate is not reassuring and it is not alarming; it is simply now known, which it was not a month ago.
What It Changed
Checking is now a scheduled month rather than something done when someone happens to doubt a number.
A month with nothing added is the hardest kind to publish, because it looks from outside exactly like a month with nothing done. This is the only place the difference is visible.
Month
- Entries added
- None.
- Claims checked
- Roughly ninety.
- Errors found
- Three.
- Errors fixed
- Three.