Corrections Policy
We publish often enough that we will be wrong sometimes. This page says what we do about it, how fast, and who signs it off. Last updated: August 2026.
Three things that are not the same
A correction is what we publish when the article stated something untrue: a wrong number, a wrong name, a wrong date, the wrong country, a quote in the wrong person’s mouth. The article is fixed and the note says what it used to say.
A clarification is for a sentence that was accurate and still misled, usually missing context or a headline understood differently from how we meant it. The note says what was unclear, and it does not pretend the original was fine.
An update is not an admission of anything. It is a story that moved: a figure revised by the body that issued it, a court decision, a company confirming today what it refused to confirm yesterday. We do not relabel a correction as an update to make it sound better, which is the most common trick in this area.
The fix goes on the article
Corrections are made in the piece the reader found, at the address they found it at. There is no separate page where our acknowledgments go to die quietly while the wrong version stays live. The note carries the date it was made and stays there permanently.
Nothing is silently edited. Quiet fixing is the habit that makes a reader who kept a screenshot right about us, and it is not worth the small embarrassment it saves. If the error was in the headline, the note records what the old one said, because the headline is the only part many people read.
Typos, and things that are not typos
A misspelling, a broken link, a duplicated word or a formatting problem is fixed without a note. Nobody’s understanding of a story changes because we wrote “the the”, and a note on every keystroke would make the real notes count for less.
Anything that touched what a reader takes away gets the note: figures, dates, names, places, who said what, and what a rule applies to. Each desk has its own version. On Auto, a recall attached to the wrong model years is a correction even though the recall is real. On Travel, an entry rule attached to the wrong passports is the sentence somebody books a flight on. On Business, an unconverted currency moves the story by an order of magnitude.
Telling us we got it wrong
Write to support@worldhab.com with “correction” in the subject line. Include the link, quote the sentence you dispute, and where you can, point at the source that has it right. That last part is not a test. It is what lets us finish in an hour instead of a day.
You do not have to be the subject of the story and you do not have to be polite. Readers who catch our errors are doing unpaid work for us. We do not run a form, because a form would only turn your email into a worse email. Other routes into the same inbox are on our contact page.
How fast, and what you hear back
Correction mail comes out of the queue ahead of pitches and commercial enquiries and is read the same working day. A clear factual error with a source attached is usually fixed within a few hours. Where we have to go back to the original source it takes longer, and we will say so rather than leave you waiting.
Every report gets an answer, including the ones we end up disagreeing with. If we conclude the article was right, we say why and point at what it rested on. If we cannot settle it either way, the article carries a note saying the claim is disputed and by whom.
The wrong version went other places too
An error rarely stays on one page, so a correction that matters goes wherever the wrong sentence travelled. Social posts carrying it are corrected or replaced with one saying what changed, the newsletter that carried it corrects in the next send, and any outlet we licensed the piece to is told in writing.
We cannot force a third party to fix their version and will not pretend otherwise. What we can do is tell them, keep the record, and correct the version we control. Where a photograph or a caption was the problem, the image is replaced or pulled.
We correct rather than delete
Articles are not unpublished because a subject is unhappy, because an advertiser asked, or because a piece has become embarrassing to us. If it was wrong it is corrected in place, and if it was wrong beyond fixing it stays up with a note across the top saying the reporting did not hold.
The exceptions are narrow: a legal order we must comply with, a real safety risk to a person, personal data that should never have been there, or material we did not have the right to publish. We remove only what has to go and leave a note at the address saying something was removed and on what grounds. Claims that we published somebody else’s material go through our DMCA process.
Who decides, and what we keep
Our managing editor signs off corrections. The editor who published the piece does the checking and drafts the note, and the writer is told, but whether something is a correction, a clarification or nothing at all is not decided by the person who made the mistake. Where the error was introduced in editing, the note says so.
We keep a record of every correction that changed the substance of a story, with the date, the article and what was wrong. The patterns are the useful part. Two of these on one desk in a month usually means a source we should stop trusting or a handover that is losing detail. Ask about a specific article at support@worldhab.com, and the rules the desk works to are on our editorial standards page.
