About the work

A closer look.

Send me the sentence you are about to publish, repeat, or decide something on. A date. Where a photograph was taken. Who really wrote the quote. A name spelled three ways on three websites. A building that may not be standing anymore. A line of Arabic, Kurdish, Farsi, Turkish or Russian that someone translated for you. I check it two ways. The record: primary sources, archives, and the language the claim actually lives in. The ground: maps and street level, what is there now. Then you get one short memo, no padding. What holds, and the source that proves it. What is wrong, and what the record actually says. What nobody can verify, said plainly. I attach the links and the reasoning, so you can argue with me instead of trusting me. If the answer is 'nobody can know this', that is what you get. I do not sell paragraphs of confidence. What I need from you: the claim in one sentence, where it came from, and what you are going to do with it. That last part changes what I check. Not for: legal advice, medical decisions, or anything that needs me to knock on a door. I read buildings and records. I do not walk into rooms.