Record desk · corrections and sources
Contact the record desk: corrections, sources and questions about an entry
Corrections take precedence over everything else on this site. This page sets out what is useful to send and how it is handled once it arrives.
What the record desk handles
Corrections first. If a figure, a date, a name, a role or an outcome on any page is wrong, it gets fixed, and a correction concerning a named individual carries more weight than any other kind. That standard is set out in the charter and it is not a formality.
Sources are the second category. Several entries mark something as unestablished: what became of the Morris Brown campus hotel, how the 55 Miracle Mile servicing resolved, who holds title to an asset where only control is documented. A published source that settles any of those is directly useful.
Third, updates. Unresolved matters resolve. A loan in special servicing reaches an outcome; a foreclosure concludes; a property trades again. Notice that a standing entry has gone stale is worth as much as a correction, because a record that is quietly out of date is wrong in a way that is harder to see.
What makes a correction easy to act on
Four things: which page it concerns, the exact statement that is wrong, what it should say instead, and a source that establishes it. A correction with all four attached can be checked against the source and applied without further correspondence.
Without a source it still gets looked at, but it has to be verified independently before anything changes, and that is slower. The standard for a correction is the same as for the original entry, namely what a published source establishes, so an unsourced assertion cannot simply replace a sourced one, whoever it comes from.
One thing this desk does not do is remove entries on request. The pages here record events that were publicly reported, and taking one down because a party would prefer it did not exist would defeat the purpose of keeping a record. A demonstrated inaccuracy is a different matter and is corrected without argument.
Reaching the desk
Write to [email protected]. Please include the page URL and the specific statement at issue; a correction that names the sentence is acted on far faster than one that names the page.
Why a record about a living company needs a correction route
Most of what is written about companies is written about their good periods, when there is an announcement to carry and an interested party willing to be quoted. Records of the other kind are rarer, and they carry an obligation the first kind does not: the people described are dealing with the consequences now.
That is why corrections sit at the top of this page rather than at the bottom of a legal notice. An error in an entry about a 1970s transaction is a historical inaccuracy. An error in an entry about a 2026 foreclosure, naming a firm that still operates and people who still work, is something a person has to live alongside.
The practical consequence is a lower threshold for acting. A correction here does not have to be litigated or negotiated. If a published source establishes that something on this site is wrong, it gets changed, and the entry notes what changed.
What this desk cannot do
It cannot verify private information. If a correction depends on something not published anywhere, there is no way to check it, and an unsourced assertion cannot replace a sourced one however authoritative its origin. That cuts both ways: it protects the record from pressure, and it means a party who knows the truth may be unable to prove it here.
It cannot offer legal, investment or professional advice of any kind. The deal mechanics page explains instruments in general terms so the record reads sensibly; it is not advice and any specific transaction is governed by its own documents.
And it cannot remove an entry because a party would prefer the events had not been reported. What it can do, quickly and without argument, is fix anything demonstrably wrong. The standard is set out in the charter.