Editorial Policy
LUDQORA publishes GTA VI reporting, guides, reference files and evidence research only when the page can do more than repeat a source. Public material should add original context, verification, comparison, practical guidance or analysis that helps a reader understand the evidence and its limits.
Primary sources first
Coverage starts with Rockstar Games, Take-Two, official stores, support pages, filings and other primary sources whenever the information exists there. Secondary reporting is used when it adds independently useful information, and its status remains visible.
Manual publication gate
A page is not published merely because source material exists. Public material is manually reviewed for usefulness, source traceability, duplication, stale claims and editorial depth. Repetitive, unresolved or source-reference-only material remains archived until it can contribute something independently useful.
Original value
Summarizing another page is not enough. LUDQORA coverage should explain what changed, why it matters, what the evidence does and does not prove, how it compares with prior official information, or what practical decision a reader can make from it. We prefer one complete page over several small updates that repeat the same source.
The originality test before publication
An indexable page must answer a distinct reader question and still provide useful value after its source links are removed. It should contribute a verification result, decision framework, comparison, original synthesis, documented observation or specialist explanation that would otherwise be missing. If the same reader need is already satisfied by an existing page, the new material is merged or archived instead of creating another URL.
Reader-visible originality receipt
Every indexable News report and Guide carries a page-specific Original Value statement explaining what LUDQORA contributes beyond the cited links. The page also exposes its evidence mix, source-domain diversity and research structure. Production validation rejects public News or Guide pages that lack a substantial bilingual contribution statement, sufficient source traceability or substantial section structure. This is a quality gate, not a claim that more sources automatically create truth.
TRACE provenance standard
LUDQORA TRACE reconstructs the documented lineage of a claim rather than merely assigning a final label. The earliest source we can pin is described as the earliest documented trace, not the absolute origin, unless the record actually proves that. Reposts and citations are counted as relays rather than independent confirmations. Semantic mutation notes compare wording and meaning — including lost caveats, changed subjects and increased certainty — and do not make claims about a publisher's intent or character. When the first mutation or source cannot be pinned confidently, TRACE displays an explicit source gap instead of inventing one. Every public TRACE dossier is manually reviewed, bilingual, source-linked, permanently excluded from ad inventory and required by production validation to contain a substantial provenance chain before it can be indexed.
PULSE live-source and publication-mode rules
PULSE is a discovery and source-intelligence layer, not an automatic publishing engine. Each public source signal carries a source class, evidence type and conservative publication mode. First-party or official-media links are labeled as official reference; this label is not a claim that a download button grants LUDQORA a blanket commercial license. Eligible YouTube material is handled as embed-only when an official player is used. Press, forum and ordinary community material is link-only: PULSE does not copy the article body, image or video simply because the URL is public. Leak-related, stolen-footage or rights-unclear signals are marked do-not-rehost and may be tracked as text/source metadata without reproducing the leaked media itself. These are LUDQORA handling rules, not a universal legal opinion; source-specific licenses and rightsholder instructions take precedence. No PULSE signal becomes a LUDQORA fact or report without the normal editorial verification gate, and PULSE is permanently excluded from ad inventory.
Evidence OS versioning, independence and hypothesis rules
STATE changes a fact only when a documented source event changes the supportable record; prior fact versions remain preserved instead of being silently overwritten. Each change carries an independence key so multiple relays of one origin do not masquerade as multiple confirmations, plus impact keys that describe which evidence paths are affected. BRANCHES uses an Analysis of Competing Hypotheses style matrix: ratings describe consistency or inconsistency with evidence, not mathematical probability, and special attention is paid to evidence that discriminates against a hypothesis. UNKNOWN records treat missing information as a bounded state with a predeclared close condition rather than as permission to predict an answer. FRAMEFIND currently exposes only manually reviewed official-media records linked to known entities; LUDQORA does not claim automated every-frame recognition until a verification loop can control false matches. LAB protocols may be published before launch so methods precede results, but protocol pages remain outside result indexing and no gameplay result is published until verified retail-build runs record the protocol version, game build, platform and run ledger. All Evidence OS research utilities are permanently excluded from Google ad inventory.
Evidence ledgers
Where a report depends on several sources, the page shows a source ledger instead of hiding the evidence behind one link. Primary material, independent reporting, interviews and analysis are listed separately so readers can inspect which source supports which level of certainty.
Reproducible research
The public Evidence Lab recalculates corpus size, source diversity and the deduplicated official-media inventory from the production data itself. Archive files are normalized and deduplicated before they are counted, citation placements are kept separate from unique source URLs, and the methodology states what those numbers cannot prove. LUDQORA LAB extends this principle to post-launch game behavior: protocols define controls, measurements, exclusions and minimum runs before a result is accepted.
Reports and uncertainty
When a claim comes from reporting rather than an official source, we label it accordingly and avoid presenting interpretation, community theory, leaked development material or rumor as confirmed final-game fact.
Updates and corrections
When published information changes, we update the page and its modification date. When a material factual error is identified, we correct it and add a clear note when the context requires one. Material that no longer meets the publication standard can be retired rather than preserved only for page count.
Headlines, structure and images
A headline should reflect what the evidence supports without inflating the claim. Repeated template conclusions and duplicated long passages are treated as editorial defects, not shortcuts. Images must serve the reporting and remain relevant. Official media is used as editorial reference and is not presented as LUDQORA-owned artwork.
Research tools and editorial judgment
Software can assist with source organization, duplicate detection, structured comparisons and technical quality assurance. It does not decide what is published. Facts, sourcing, conclusions and public eligibility remain subject to editorial review.
Commercial independence
Advertising, sponsorships and other commercial relationships do not determine what LUDQORA covers, which evidence label is used, or whether a correction is made. Material relationships are disclosed when they could affect a reader's understanding of the work.