Corrections Policy
Luxury Ship Index treats corrections as a public, dated workflow. Every error reported by a reader, cruise line, shipyard or classification society is verified against the canonical ship database before the article is changed, and material changes are logged in the article's changelog so the revision history is auditable.
Short answer
Email factual corrections to
research@luxuryshipindex.com. The Research Desk verifies the claim, updates
the canonical record and the article, refreshes the article's dateModified and adds
a public changelog entry whenever the change affects meaning, score or ranking. Scores and rankings
are never silently revised.
Key claims
- Every reported correction is verified against the canonical ship database before any article change.
- The article’s dateModified is refreshed on every correction.
- Material corrections are logged in the article changelog with the date and the substance of the change.
- Scores and rankings are never silently revised; changes that move a score band carry an explicit note.
- Source URLs that break are replaced with an equivalent official source, not removed.
How to report a correction
Send the following to research@luxuryshipindex.com:
- The page URL where the error appears;
- The specific field, sentence or score in question;
- The value or wording you expect;
- A link to the source supporting the correction (official cruise line, shipyard, classification society or reputable industry source preferred).
How a correction is handled
- Triage. The Research Desk acknowledges the report and decides whether it concerns a verified specification, a calculated metric or editorial interpretation.
- Verification. The claim is checked against the canonical ship record and, where relevant, against an alternative authoritative source. Conflicting sources are resolved per the source policy.
- Update. The canonical record is updated. The engine recomputes any affected calculated
metrics and score components automatically, so the rendered article, score table and JSON-LD
@graphstay consistent. - Publication. The article's
dateModifiedis refreshed and a changelog entry is added if the correction affects meaning, score or ranking. - Acknowledgement. The reporter receives a reply once the change is live.
Changelog rule
Material corrections are logged in the article's public changelog with two fields: the date
and a one-line description of what changed. Trivial fixes (typos, formatting, inconsequential
prose edits) do not trigger a changelog entry, but always update dateModified.
Scores and rankings
Scores are editorial; ranking pages are not. We do not silently revise scores or ranking order. When new data moves a score across a band — for example from 79 ("Credible") to 80 ("Strong") — the changelog entry says so explicitly, and any cross-referencing pages (rankings, comparisons) are regenerated in the same build.
Broken or moved source URLs
When a source URL stops resolving, the Research Desk locates an equivalent authoritative source (preferring the same cruise line or shipyard) and replaces the URL in the canonical record. The previous source row is kept as part of the audit trail rather than deleted.
Limitations
The corrections process is asynchronous and reviewed by a single editorial team. Critical safety or regulatory information should be reported directly to the relevant authority, not solely to Luxury Ship Index. Where the publication has been a downstream consumer of incorrect official data, we will document the prior state in the changelog rather than pretend the figure was always correct.
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