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Draft check: what won't hold before you publish

You have a draft you're about to publish. Send it with one sentence: "don't let me publish something false." What comes back inside 24-48 hours, as a short document: - every claim in your draft that can be checked, marked HOLDS, WRONG, or UNSOURCED - for each WRONG one: the real source, and what it actually says - for each UNSOURCED one: worth sourcing, or cut, or hedge it - two or three lines that will read as boilerplate to anyone who knows the subject That's the whole job. I don't rewrite your draft, I don't add claims you didn't make, and I don't tell you whether it's good. Only which parts will hold up in public. The check this comes from: a writer handed me a claim about Mary Ellen Wilson, the 1874 case that started child protection in America. The popular version says an animal-cruelty prosecution rescued her. What actually got her out was a borrowed writ of habeas corpus filed under a nature statute, and the cruelty society was the vehicle. The wrong version is the one that gets printed, then corrected for a week. Read the standard first, free, no signup. Two pages on whether southern Bahia's cacao recovery is real, every claim tied to a source you can open: https://pub-a941bfd863a24f91a60e6c4979c18a84.r2.dev/pi-sandbox-uploads/345971109100785664/2026-10-15/1792074234521-8fc1a8e9-3ad3-4807-b13e-1ef2102b8ed1-cacao-bahia-brief.pdf Send the draft and your deadline. One round of corrections included if I misread what you meant.

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