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Submit a source correction.

Use this noindex intake route for factual corrections, source-trail updates, caption or credit fixes, and rights notes. Public claims need public, reviewable sources.

Selected lane

Source correction

Best for spelling, attribution, date, caption, source status, rights, or provenance updates.

Safety note

Do not send private personal information, unsupported allegations, or copyrighted media you do not have rights to share. Claims about living people must include public, verifiable context or be clearly marked as a lead that needs review.

Three questions

Start with what you know.

What should CultureUp know?
Why does it matter to your community?
Where can we follow up or verify it?

Choose a lane if you know it. Not sure? Pick Not sure yet.

Story tip

Best for narrative ideas, sourced tips, profiles, interviews, explainers, and records that deserve a larger story.

Community story

Best for community voices, local updates, identity, education, events, and reader-sourced context that needs editorial review.

Commons research

Best for CultureUp Commons topic ideas, source challenges, disagreement that needs receipts, story requests, and member led research prompts.

Reading Room submission

Best for independent/small-press titles, archive returns, reading-path candidates, and literary works centered on memory, place, and repair.

Source correction

Best for spelling, attribution, date, caption, source status, rights, or provenance updates.

Media submission

Best for media projects, ownership notes, creator credits, caption context, transcript status, and usage review.

Permissions

Best for permissions, republication, quote, image-use, transcript, classroom, exhibit, or media-credit requests.

Privacy and safe sharing

Best for privacy concerns, consent boundaries, family material, minors, living people, sensitive records, and safe-sharing review.

Event submission

Best for events that may become listings, previews, recaps, or community coverage after review.

Contributor interest

Best for writers, editors, photographers, producers, researchers, educators, and community contributors.

Partnership

Best for institutions, researchers, educators, producers, and community groups with aligned material.

Not sure yet

Best when you have something CultureUp should know, but you do not know whether it is a story, correction, event, media note, or contributor lead.

What happens next

1Route the note into the correct review lane.
2Check source detail, consent, privacy, rights context, and credit language.
3Escalate sensitive claims for editorial and safety review.
4Respond with a next step and handoff route when the material fits CultureUp.
Intake lane

This lane should produce

This lane should produce a visible correction, a source-note update, a credit fix, or an update-log entry.

Helpful details

  • Short title required.
  • Page, source link, or public reference required.
  • Organization optional.
  • Context guide: at least 70 characters helps the team route the note.

Quality rules

  • Name the exact page, asset, or sentence at issue.
  • Provide the corrected wording or attribution.
  • Include the supporting source or record route.
  • Explain whether the change affects meaning, credit, date, or rights.

Common blockers

  • Do not use this lane for new unrelated story ideas.
  • Do not send broad complaints without a specific page or asset reference.

Sensitive content guardrails

  • Do not include private addresses, private phone numbers, private emails, medical details, financial details, or identity documents.
  • Do not submit accusations about living people without public source context.
  • Do not upload or link copyrighted media unless you own it, have permission, or are referencing an official public source.
Before you prepare the note

Sensitive claims may need additional source, consent, privacy, rights, and correction review before CultureUp can use them.

This prepares an email note for CultureUp review. It does not publish a story. Please do not send private information, copyrighted media you do not own, or unsupported claims about real people.

CultureUp uses email follow-up for reader notes, Dispatch interest, partner intake, and community context.