Corrections & sources

An archive that cannot admit error cannot be trusted with memory. If something here is wrong — a word glossed badly, a festival date misplaced, a dish attributed to the wrong valley — we want to know, and we will fix it in the open.

How to report an error

Email namaste@himachali.comwith a link to the entry and what's wrong. If you can say how you know — you grew up with it, you speak the dialect, you have a reference — include that, but firsthand knowledge is a source here. You don't need a citation to correct us about your own language.

What happens next

• We acknowledge every report.
• Confirmed corrections are made visibly: the entry is updated, its "last updated" date changes, and a correction note at the bottom of the entry says what changed and why. We do not silently rewrite the record.
• Corrections are credited to the person who made them, if they wish to be named — the consent standard applies to correctors too.

About sources

Festival records, district profiles, and essays cite their sources at the bottom of the entry. Recordings and family recipes cite their provenance instead — who spoke or cooked, where, and when, with consent. Where we compiled from published material, the entry says so and lists what we read.