Evidence policy

How UroFellow verifies the directory.

Material claims remain tied to an official or attributable source and a checked date. Unknown information stays visibly unknown.

Source hierarchy

1. Official programme or institution source. Primary evidence for programme identity, format and application route.
2. Professional body or regulator. Evidence for structured listings, accreditation and registration.
3. Official individual faculty profile. Required before an individual biography can be indexed.
4. Reputable secondary evidence. Used only with a clearly scoped confidence label.

What is never inferred

A live page is not proof that applications are open. A country does not prove international eligibility. Hospital affiliation does not prove future supervision. Missing funding means “not publicly listed,” not “unfunded.”

SEO thresholds

Faculty pages require attributable individual evidence and a programme relationship. City pages normally require two canonical programmes. Country-by-subspecialty pages require two verified canonical programmes; thinner views remain noindex and are excluded from the sitemap.

Editorial corrections

Submissions are unverified until manually reviewed. The current workflow opens the editorial inbox; it does not claim database storage or automatic publication.