Archive policies

Editorial review

Community Media Voices publishes records about real people. Every new record and every submitted memory is reviewed before it appears in the archive. Review means a person reads it — checking that it is specific, respectful, and plausibly accurate — before publication. As the archive grows, routine additions to established records may be published on an expedited basis, but new person records and in memoriam designations always receive human review. We do not publish anonymous accusations, score-settling, or material submitted in bad faith.

Corrections

We get things wrong. Names, dates, station affiliations, and the shape of a career can all be misremembered, and many of our records are built from fragmentary public sources and personal recollection. If you find an error — your own or someone else's — use Find yourself to request a fix. To add a story or memory about someone in the archive, use Share a story or memory. Corrections are typically reviewed within a few days. You do not need to prove anything to ask; we would rather hear about a possible error than miss a real one.

Removal requests

If you are listed in this archive and do not wish to be, we will remove your record. You do not need to give a reason. Use the contact form, choose “Request removal or privacy concern,” and identify yourself; we may follow up briefly to confirm you are the person in the record, and then the record comes down. This archive exists to honor people, and an unwilling subject contradicts its purpose.

Requests concerning the records of people who have died are handled with care and on a case-by-case basis. Family members sometimes disagree about how — or whether — someone should be remembered publicly. When we receive a removal or revision request for an in memoriam record, we review it individually, weigh the wishes of those closest to the person, and err on the side of dignity. We may temporarily unpublish a record while a request is under review.

In memoriam records

Records of people who have died are marked “In the record” and may appear in the archive's memorial collection. We rely on submissions, public sources, and our review process to keep this designation accurate, and we correct it promptly when we are notified of an error. If we have marked someone in memoriam in error, please tell us immediately — that correction takes priority over everything else.

Anonymous submissions

You may share your own story anonymously. Anonymous stories are preserved as station and community memories rather than as personal records. Anonymous submissions are held to a higher standard, not a lower one. Because no one publicly stands behind them, anonymous stories must be about the work — what was built, taught, made possible. We do not publish anonymous criticism of named individuals, anonymous accounts of disputes, or submissions whose purpose is to settle a score. The archive is not a review site and has no comments. If you have a serious concern about a person listed here, contact us directly rather than submitting it as a memory. We always verify submissions privately even when published without attribution.

Harassment and abusive submissions

We do not publish slurs, threats, harassment, or material whose main purpose is to attack, humiliate, or settle scores with a named person. Submissions that read as profane rants, personal vendettas, or bad-faith pile-ons are declined. Memories can describe hard moments in community media history — layoffs, disputes, institutional failure — when they are specific, good-faith, and grounded in the work. They cannot be a substitute for a complaint forum or a comments section we do not have.

What we won't publish

The archive does not publish private contact information, home addresses, health information, or private facts about living people unrelated to their work in community media. We do not publish material that exists to disparage rather than remember. Memories that mention conflict or hardship are not excluded — community media history includes both — but they must serve the record, not a grievance.

Sources and accuracy

Community Media Voices relies on public sources, direct submissions, and permission-based records. We do not scrape, copy, import, or republish information from password-protected, member-only, or restricted-access directories without explicit permission from the data owner.

We work in good faith, but we cannot guarantee that every record is complete or correct, and no record should be treated as authoritative biography. Where a record is thin, we say so. The archive improves the way it was built: person by person, correction by correction.

Contact

All correction and removal requests, and any questions about these policies, go through the contact page. Every message is read.