Editorial policy

Svesnost publishes encyclopedic articles that distinguish documented facts, attributed claims, interpretation and opinion.

Evidence hierarchy

1. Documents — original laws, decisions, minutes, official records and archives.
2. Publications — scholarly work, investigative journalism, reports and analysis.
3. Testimony — accounts from participants, eyewitnesses and direct observers.
4. Rumors — information without adequate corroboration or traceable provenance.

This is a priority order of evidence types, not an automatic truth rating. A document may establish that a statement was made without establishing that the statement was true. Rumors can be examined as a phenomenon but cannot substantiate factual claims.

Claim status in footnotes

Numbered Markdown footnotes should identify the source type, precise citation and date, and, where needed, the status of the particular claim: confirmed, limited, contested or unverified. Numerical truth scores are not used.

Neutrality and context

We describe verifiable actions and political positions without endorsing parties, candidates or policies. Contested evaluations and accusations are attributed to their sources. We do not present unsupported claims as equal to well-established evidence merely for the sake of balance.

Checking and correcting information

Legal norms are checked against current primary law, judicial actions against relevant court documents, and statistics against original data with methods and time periods. Official procedures, observed institutional practice and personal experiences are distinguished. Conflicts between sources are described; material errors are corrected with transparent revision history.

The Serbian Cyrillic edition is primary, but untranslated Serbian articles are not shown in other language menus or search. The full contributor rules are maintained in Serbian.