Text generated by artificial intelligence, according to the Method.
What this marker means
[a verificar] · a field not confirmed against the source, not a doubt about what is published
It is the only uncertainty marker on this site. It appears where a field has not been confirmed against the source. The marker is kept in Portuguese, as in the original; it reads “to verify”.
What it is
A declared absence. It is not a default, not an estimate, and not a doubt about the published figure: it is the site saying that this field (the source, the document, the address, the read date or the excerpt) has not yet been checked against the origin.
Why it exists
Because the alternative is to fill the field with something plausible. A plausible field looks like provenance and is not, and a reader would have no way of telling the difference. The marker makes the gap visible, countable and datable, which is why it appears instead of disappearing.
What happens to a row that carries it
- the source mark for that row is drawn dashed, not filled;
- the row’s page says, in words, which fields are missing;
- the row stays out of search engine indexes and out of the sitemap while the gap lasts;
- the published value does not change because of it: what is missing is the documentary proof, not the figure.
How it goes away
On its own. The day the field is filled in and checked, the mark turns solid and the row returns to the index, with nobody else deciding anything.
There is only one
There is no second marker saying the same thing in other words. A site with two languages of uncertainty has, in practice, none.