Request or correct a record

Get focused attention on a question in your paper.

Send your preprint and tell us where an independent reader could help. We will prepare a record that says what was claimed, who asserted it, and what evidence exists. We will help define the request. You do not need to know any of this project's vocabulary to file one. Reviewer availability varies; not every request leads to a record.

Who this is for

Our initial focus is AI-assisted mathematical claims, where the volume of new claims makes focused scrutiny especially useful. But the records and checks work for any preprint where an independent reader could help. You do not need to be working with AI tools to request attention on your paper.

What a record tracks

A record says what was claimed, who asserted it, what evidence exists, and what nobody has checked yet. Findings stay attributed to their contributors and limited to the scope examined. Extracting fields, provenance, hashes, and locators is our job. You may leave the final question blank.

What happens after you ask

Requests are answered within a few days. That is a promise about the reply, not about the record: the answer may well be that no record will be created, and it will say why. A request that goes nowhere is closed without a public judgement attached to it.

Two routes

Widely circulating public claims from organisations or major announcements may receive editorial records compiled entirely from public sources. The page says plainly that its authors did not participate unless they did.

Ordinary claims by individual living authors are published through an author request or opt-in. A reader may suggest one; maintainers contact the author privately before publication. If the author declines, no record is filed and no decline list is kept.

One required field, two short context fields

Required: link

A link to where it actually lives (paper, preprint, repository, announcement, post). The most stable one, if it is in several places.

Short: your role

Author, reader, or something else. This changes what happens next rather than how the request is ranked: an author can attest to their own work, and a reader asking about someone else's claim starts the contact step above.

Optional: attention

A correction, a theorem that matters, or a step you want examined. “Not sure” and a blank answer are both valid.

Open an issue

Open a prefilled request or correction on GitHub. The fields above are already labelled. Needs a GitHub account.

Already received a draft from Significance?

Reply directly to that message with “accurate,” ordinary prose corrections, “keep this private,” or “do not mark this author-confirmed.” No account, schema, or separate form is required. Silence is never represented as approval.