Reporting and resolving errors
Corrections Policy
Stargazing Finder corrects material factual errors and updates changing information when reliable evidence supports a revision.
What may require correction
- Incorrect location, elevation, designation, season, astronomical value, or source attribution.
- Outdated road, ferry, park, observatory, permit, opening, or protected-area information.
- A map marker that could create a false impression of exact public access.
- A score calculation that does not match the published factors or weights.
- Wording that presents an estimate as a measurement or an uncertain claim as settled fact.
- A broken source path that prevents readers from checking a material statement.
Submitting a correction
Send the page URL, the exact statement, a concise explanation, and the strongest available source to contact@stargazingfinder.com. Include the date observed when the issue concerns access, schedules, roads, closures, or temporary restrictions.
Firsthand experience can identify a problem, but claims about legality, official status, permanent closure, or public access usually need confirmation from the responsible authority.
Assessment
Correction requests are assessed for source authority, relevance, date, geographic fit, and whether the proposed wording would create a new unsupported claim. When several trustworthy sources disagree, the page may describe the disagreement, narrow the statement, or remove a conclusion that cannot be supported.
Types of change
| Change | Examples | Typical handling |
|---|---|---|
| Minor | Spelling, formatting, broken internal link, non-material wording | Corrected directly without a separate notice |
| Substantive | Access rule, score input, location description, source interpretation | Page text and review date may be updated |
| Safety-related | Closure, private access, dangerous route implication, emergency limitation | Prioritized and amended as soon as reliable confirmation is available |
| Method-wide | Formula, weighting, category definition, comparability rule | Related pages may be revised together and the method description updated |
What is not automatically a correction
A personal preference, a request for promotional inclusion, disappointment with a score, or disagreement unsupported by evidence does not by itself establish an error. A destination can remain valuable while receiving a lower planning score because of cloud, access, seasonal darkness, or nearby light.
Removal requests
Requests to remove accurate public information are considered when publication creates a credible safety, privacy, conservation, trespass, or abuse risk. Commercial discomfort alone is not enough. Sensitive exact coordinates may be reduced to a broader planning area when precision could encourage unlawful access or environmental harm.
Transparency
Material changes may be reflected in the review date, source list, evidence statement, score factors, or wording. The site does not promise a public change log for every small edit.