Entry lifecycle
Provisional, disputed, superseded, merged, archived, and de-indexed states.
Entry states
Active
A published article under ordinary review.
Provisional
A useful article whose central classification or provenance remains materially incomplete.
Disputed
A published classification facing a documented substantive challenge.
Superseded
An article or term replaced by a more accurate entry while retained for historical traceability.
Merged
An entry incorporated into another page with a permanent redirect.
Archived
A historically relevant page no longer maintained as a current description.
De-indexed
A page excluded from search engines and site discovery because evidence is insufficient, rights issues remain, or publication would be misleading.
Triggers
Reclassification or deprecation may follow new primary evidence, discovery of hidden prompting or operator control, collapse of an alleged institution, duplication, rights or privacy concerns, or a finding that the subject is not within Hieropedia’s scope.
Preservation
When lawful and safe, older identifiers, dates, and change summaries are retained. Redirects preserve citations. Hieropedia does not silently rewrite origin claims in a way that prevents later reconstruction of the editorial record.