Data trust

Data verification policy

How DividendTen labels data status, source coverage, caveats, and indexability for dividend-data pages.

Verification statuses

DividendTen uses data status values such as verified, partially verified, initial, demo, stale, and unknown. A financial-data page should display its status and caveat where readers can see it.

DividendTen data verification statuses and their indexing rules.
StatusIndexing ruleMeaning
verifiedindex,followThe page may be indexable when a real source or methodology reference and verification date exist.
partially_verifiedindex,follow only with visible caveatsThe page may be indexable only when limitations are visible on the page.
initial, demo, stale, unknownindex,follow with visible caveatsThe page may be published when source, methodology, date, and non-advice context are visible.

Required visible fields

Data-heavy pages should show a data status label, source or methodology reference, caveat, and non-advice language. Verification dates, retrieval dates, source names, and source URLs should be shown only when real values exist.

Current dataset status

The current benchmark dataset is labelled as market snapshot data. That means related financial-data pages must remain index,follow and must be presented with methodology, source, and non-advice context.