{"id":7722,"date":"2026-07-11T03:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/?page_id=7722"},"modified":"2026-07-11T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:30:15","slug":"fact-check-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/fact-check-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Check Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before a claim earns a place in an article on this site, it has to survive a check against the original source. This page explains how that check works, what we refuse to do, and how we fix things when we get them wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What we check against<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fact-checking here is not one person searching for a number that fits. Every draft is checked against a set of reference libraries I built and keep updating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><strong>A source-verified base.<\/strong> Claims traced back to the original: the documentation, the study, the data set. A blog quoting a blog is not a source, and it never counts as one here.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A myth and weak-narrative library.<\/strong> The industry claims that keep circulating and do not survive scrutiny. If a draft leans on one, it gets pulled, even when the claim is popular.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A compliance and risk library.<\/strong> Claims that are legally or commercially risky to make, so we do not make them, and so we can warn you when someone else does.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A reality filter.<\/strong> Advice that sounds smart in a conference talk but dies on contact with a real store owner&#8217;s budget, team, and time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Our own data.<\/strong> Real numbers from client Search Console and Analytics accounts, used where they answer the question better than a borrowed statistic. When a number is ours, we say so.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How we verify a claim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><strong>Isolate the claim.<\/strong> Separate the facts from the opinion and the analysis, because only the facts need sourcing. Judgment is allowed to be judgment, as long as it is labeled as such.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Find the primary source.<\/strong> The original document or data set, not a secondhand write-up repeating it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Grade it.<\/strong> Every claim comes back supported, qualified, or contradicted. Supported stays as written. Qualified gets softened until it matches what the evidence actually says. Contradicted gets cut or corrected.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pressure-test interested sources.<\/strong> When the source benefits from the claim it is making, Google included, we treat it as a position rather than a fact, and we tell you where the honest disagreement sits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cut what will not verify.<\/strong> Anything we cannot trace to a credible source is removed or clearly flagged. We would rather say less than say something we cannot stand behind.<\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What we refuse to do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><strong>Invent a statistic or a quote.<\/strong> Not to fill a gap, not to sound authoritative, not ever. If we do not have a real number, you will not see one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Treat one vendor&#8217;s word as settled.<\/strong> A single interested source is a claim, not proof.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Keep a claim we cannot source.<\/strong> If it will not trace back, it comes out, however much we liked the line.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Round a number up to make it land harder.<\/strong> A real, smaller number beats an inflated one every time, because credibility is the only thing here that compounds.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Corrections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are careful, but nobody publishing at a real pace is perfect. When we find an error, or a reader points one out, we fix the article and note that it was updated, with the date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a correction changes the takeaway, we say what changed rather than quietly swapping a word. Trust is worth more to me than looking flawless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Found something that does not hold up?<\/strong> Email us at <strong>editorial@wpconsults.com<\/strong> and I will look into it personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A note on tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Software, including AI, helps gather and cross-check sources quickly, which is the slow part of this work. The verdict on whether a claim survives is human, and it is mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is accountable<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abdullah Nouman<\/strong>, founder of WpConsults. I make the final call on every claim published here. If something on this site is wrong, that is on me, not on a tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/abdullah-nouman\/\">Read my full profile<\/a>, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/content-team\/\">how our content gets made<\/a>, oder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/arbeit-mit-wpconsults\/\">book a free consultation<\/a> if you want to work together.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How WpConsults verifies what it publishes: the fact-check method, the hard lines we will not cross, and our corrections policy.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3246,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":1,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"show","_kad_post_layout":"narrow","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"unboxed","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"show","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7722","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7722"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7774,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7722\/revisions\/7774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wpconsults.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}