Margaret Hale

What I do here

I check that quoted specifications match the primary documents they came from, and I decide what we publish, what evidence a claim needs before it goes out, and what happens when we get something wrong.

Most of that work is unglamorous. A datasheet figure gets quoted without its measurement conditions. A tuning range is stated as though it were guaranteed over temperature when the source only gives it at 25 °C. A comparison declares one part “better” without saying better for which constraint. Those are the errors that survive a casual read and mislead someone sizing a real design, so they are the ones I look for.

What a guide has to clear before it publishes

• Every specification traces to a primary document — a manufacturer datasheet, a standard, or published measurement — and the conditions come with it.
• Comparisons state the constraint they are optimising for. “It depends” is not a conclusion; if a page cannot say what it depends on, it is not finished.
• Where a number is a typical value, a limit, or our own inference, the text says which.
• Nothing implies first-hand testing we have not done.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell me. Send the page URL, the sentence you are disputing, and a source I can check, to the editorial address in the footer.

I will fix the specific claim first and look at what else it affects second. A correction that quietly changes a conclusion without saying so is not a correction.