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Source policy
Article pages include a source trail where useful. Official maker pages, specialist retailers, technical references, KKF-style discussion and Reddit-style community consensus can all inform a piece, but the writing remains original and claims are framed carefully.
Corrections
If a specification, maker attribution, steel, heat-treatment note or retailer detail changes, the article should be corrected. Knife information moves; the site should not pretend otherwise.