Sources & Methodology

1. Source Taxonomy

• Primary Constitutional & Legal Texts: Constitution of India provisions, Presidential Orders, Reorganisation Act text.
• Judicial Material: Supreme Court judgments, interim orders, cause lists for procedural chronology.
• Legislative & Executive Documents: Parliamentary debates, Gazette notifications, ministry press releases.
• Comparative & Scholarly: Peer‑reviewed articles, constitutional law monographs, federalism analyses.
• Secondary Context: Credible news reports (used for sequencing context only, not doctrinal substantiation).

2. Verification Workflow

1. Extraction: Collect candidate data points (date, instrument, clause, procedural step).
2. Primary Anchor Check: Confirm each data point against a primary legal document.
3. Secondary Corroboration: Cross-match with at least one independent reputable source (judgment summary, parliamentary record).
4. Contextual Framing: Annotate whether a statement is descriptive (observable fact) or interpretive (analytical abstraction).
5. Integration: Insert into hierarchical section with anchor ID and cross‑references.

3. Consolidation Pipeline

Information flows from raw extraction notes → provisional staging list → validated canonical timeline / thematic section. Redundant or low-salience items are merged into aggregated descriptors (e.g., multiple similar adaptation orders referenced collectively).

4. Update Cadence

• Scheduled: Quarterly baseline review cycle scanning for new legal developments.
• Event-Driven: Immediate insertion queue for landmark judgments, statutory amendments, or domicile/land policy circulars.
• Version Notes: Material revisions flagged via page-level version note (and planned aggregated changelog feed).

5. Inclusion Criteria

• Relevance: Directly clarifies Article 370’s legal mechanism, operational history, or abrogation pathway.
• Traceable: Must map to a primary or high-quality secondary source.
• Non-Redundant: Adds resolution not already represented by broader synthesis statements.

6. Citation & Referencing

• Legal Documents: Cited by instrument name + date (e.g., C.O. 272 / 05 Aug 2019).
• Judgments: Cited by full case name (short form after first mention) + decision date; neutral citation if available.
• Scholarly Works: Author Surname (Year) abbreviated parenthetical; full reference in a consolidated bibliography (planned).
• News / Reports: Used sparingly for sequencing—excluded from doctrinal substantiation where primary texts suffice.

7. Quality Controls

• Consistency Pass: Terminology alignment (e.g., “abrogation” vs “termination” context-specific usage).
• Anchor Integrity: Periodic crawl script (planned) to detect broken internal anchors.
• Temporal Accuracy: Chronological ordering cross-checked with multi-source date confirmation.

8. Limitations

Some transitional administrative directives may lack persistent archival endpoints; such items are flagged or excluded to avoid unverifiable references. Interpretive framings reflect synthesized scholarly consensus trends but are not prescriptive policy positions.

9. Feedback & Corrections

Suggested corrections or missing source notifications: editor@article370.com. Please include source citation and section anchor reference.