How this works
Everything here is a record of something real — a club, a ground, a team, a competition — put together from named sources, with the gaps left showing.
One record for each club, ground, team and competition
Every entity of the same kind can hold the same set of details: a club has a founding year, a home ground, a set of colours, a location, and so on. Because that list is fixed, a page that is missing a detail shows it as missing rather than quietly leaving it out.
Every fact has a source
No value is simply typed in. Each one is recorded as a claim, tied to the evidence it rests on and the source that evidence came from — a club's own website, the FAI, a local council, a newspaper, or a reference work. The bar at the foot of every club, ground and team page shows how much of that page is cited; open it to see each field, where it came from, and whether anyone has checked it.
Some sources carry more weight than others. A club stating its own founding date is stronger evidence than an encyclopedia repeating it, so sources are labelled by what they are. Anything resting only on a general reference work is treated as provisional and flagged, until something better is found.
Recorded, cited and checked are three separate things
Whether a detail has been recorded, whether it carries a citation, and whether a person has reviewed it are tracked as three different numbers — on each page, and across the whole site on the data page. A fact can be recorded without a citation, or cited but not yet checked. The site never assumes one from the others.
When a fact can't be found, we say so
If we look for a detail and come up empty, the field still gets an entry: "Not recorded" when it is simply unknown, or a note when the thing genuinely does not exist. Right now 7,698 of 11,669 details the register could hold are still unresolved. That number is meant to go down.
Sources that disagree are left in disagreement
For a handful of Dublin clubs and grounds the sources genuinely conflict — a founding year, a capacity. Rather than pick one and move on, the page marks the value as disputed and explains the disagreement. Choosing quietly would make the site look more settled than it is.
Corrections
If something is wrong, it is wrong in one specific field, and the page will tell you where that field came from. Use the correction link on any page: name the club or ground, say which detail is off and what it should be, and add a source if you have one — it helps, but it isn't required.
A correction adds a new claim rather than erasing the old one. Plausible corrections publish straight away and are then checked in review, so a page can improve quickly without an unverified fact passing unmarked.