How we verify

A number reaches a page on this site only after the bytes that support it are on disk and a machine has confirmed the number is inside them. This page says what that means, in plain words, and shows the one case where the rule currently withholds an answer.

What happens to a number before you see it

Every reading starts as a page somewhere on the internet. That page is captured — the rendered text is written to a file and kept — and the capture is registered against a source with a tier. The tiers are the whole hierarchy: publisher for Century Games' own pages, secondary for independent sites that do their own work, community for forum and chat posts, and aggregator for sites that copy other sites. An aggregator can never contribute to a published value, at any volume, because a thousand copies of one claim is still one claim.

Then five checks run on the reading itself. The source must be registered, or it has no tier and cannot be weighed. The capture must still exist on disk and must not be a bot-check page pretending to be an article. The supporting snippet must be present byte-for-byte inside the captured bytes. The value must appear inside its own snippet. And the capture must not describe Whiteout Survival using a different game's vocabulary, because a source that cannot tell states from another game's regions is not a source we can weigh at all — it is distrusted whole.

How a status is worked out, rather than declared

Once the readings survive, the status of the fact is computed from them. It is never something a person types in.

• PublishableA publisher reading, or two independent secondary readings that agree. Independent means different source groups, not merely different web addresses — two sites owned by the same operation are one source.
• HeldOne secondary reading and nothing else. This is a worklist entry, not a failure. The fact is kept, and what would publish it is written down.
• DisputedReadings disagree. The disagreement is shown as a disagreement. Nothing is averaged, split, or quietly resolved in the publisher's favour.
• LeadCommunity sources only. A lead is a place to go and look, never a number to schedule an alliance around.

Only publishable facts build. Everything else is kept, counted and named, because a gap you can see is worth more than a gap that has been smoothed over.

The disagreement currently on the record

There is one, and it is a good illustration of why the rule exists. Century Games' own help centre states that an Ordinary State has a transfer cap of 55. An independent Whiteout wiki states that an Ordinary State can accommodate a maximum of 58 during the event. Both readings are captured; both are dated; they cannot both be right.

The answer this site gives you is that the two sources disagree, and that we do not know which one is correct. It is not resolved toward the publisher by default, because publisher help pages go stale and this one is old enough that it might have. It is not averaged, because 56 or 57 is a number nobody has ever stated and it would be wrong for certain. It will be settled by a third independent source or by somebody who plays reading it off the live screen, and until then the honest output is the disagreement itself.

What this site does not do

It does not reproduce the publisher's text, tables or screenshots. Facts are restated in our own words with a citation and a read date; the captured bytes stay in the research record and are not republished. It does not fetch sites whose robots file asks us not to — several Whiteout sites name automated readers explicitly, and those are cited by name and never crawled. It does not publish anything sourced only from a forum thread. And it carries no in-game evidence tier at all, because nobody working on this site plays the game, and inventing a tier we cannot actually fill is how a reference starts lying to itself.

Where the ledger stands today

Fifty-one readings have been through the gate. Forty-eight qualify to publish, two are held for want of a second independent source, one is the disagreement described above, and none have been refused as malformed. Of the forty-eight, forty-three rest on a single publisher reading. That is legitimate — Century Games is the authority on its own game — and it is also a single point of failure, and it is stated here rather than left for a reader to discover.

If you find something on this site that is wrong, say so. Corrections are taken with evidence and acted on, and the record of what changed is kept.