Evidence before assertion
Material project, company, market, and performance claims must rest on identifiable evidence. Unknowns remain unknown rather than being completed by inference.
Governance
Evidence, independence, and accountable correction.
IMWO publishes marine works intelligence as an editorial record, not as paid endorsement. Public records identify their source basis, confidence, review date, and correction route where the format supports them.
Commercial separation
Membership, sponsorship, advertising, directory participation, and collaboration cannot purchase coverage, ranking, shortlist status, or favourable wording.
Visible revision
Records carry review dates and source trails. Material corrections or status changes are reflected in the public record and, where applicable, the Project Change Log.
Editorial trust
The controls behind the public record.
Project status, company activity, procurement movement, and performance claims can affect real decisions. IMWO therefore separates evidence, editorial judgement, commercial relationships, and recognition review.
Editorial control
Publication, prominence, wording, and correction decisions remain with IMWO's editorial process. A commercial relationship does not confer approval rights.
Source accountability
Records distinguish official, primary, company, credible reporting, and monitored evidence. Confidence describes the evidence available, not the importance of the story.
Correction accountability
Corrections are assessed against the record's existing basis and the evidence supplied. Material changes are made in the public record rather than handled as private assurances.
Conflicts and recognition
Recognition and performance records require declared evidence and conflict review. Sponsorship, membership, advertising, or directory participation is not evidence.
Corrections
A correction starts with the claim and its evidence.
Commercial relationships cannot buy, delay, or suppress a correction. They are not treated as evidence.
- Locate the claim.Provide the page URL and identify the project, organization, statement, status, or attribution in question.
- Supply stronger evidence.Send official notices, primary documents, operating records, source links, or attributable stakeholder confirmation.
- Editorial review.The request is compared with the published source basis, chronology, confidence, and any conflicting evidence.
- Publish the outcome.The result may be a correction, clarification, added sourcing, or no change when the supplied evidence does not displace the existing basis.
Evidence standards
What the source record can support.
Confidence labels describe the strength and proximity of evidence. The source map shows how different source classes are used.
Source confidence
Source map
Performance and recognition
A separate threshold for performance claims.
Market reporting, monitored performance, shortlist consideration, and formal recognition are not interchangeable states.
Performance evidence levels
Review standards
Responsibility
Who is responsible for coverage.
Coverage roles define the desk responsible for monitoring, verification, classification, and correction handling.
Named advisory or review appointments are published only after role, consent, and conflict declarations are confirmed. No unapproved person is represented as a board member or reviewer.