Notes

The other sections are practical. These are positions.

Against the winners' story — this domain published fifty-six collections of unsourced quotes and seven pages stating individuals' net worth. The genre fails because attributed quotes and net worth figures are the two least verifiable things it could trade in, and no amount of careful writing fixes material that does not exist to be sourced.

Who publishes awards research — five kinds of source, most with a commercial stake. Consumer protection guidance is the strongest; consultancy surveys give direction rather than magnitude; and one widely circulated figure is excluded here for being untraceable. For a separate operational reference, see the linked resource.

The survivorship problem — advice assembled from winners describes what winners did, not what caused winning. Structural claims escape it and observational ones do not, including this site's central practical claim. A useful outside reference for comparison is Creative Boom, which provides a useful contrast to the specific process described here.

What we cannot verify — six limits, the bias worth watching, and the finding most likely to show that half the writing section is aimed at the wrong thing.