Literary Works Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-26 · 10 entries checked · 5 flagged · 8 issues confirmed · 5 corrected · 3 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Silent Spring — The claim that the ban on DDT for agricultural use occurred in 1972 is misleading; the EPA issued a cancellation order for most agricultural uses of DDT in 1972, but the ban was not fully effective until 1974 after legal challenges, and some uses continued lat

Silent Spring — The claim that Silent Spring 'led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency' is an oversimplification; the EPA was created in 1970 by President Nixon's Reorganization Plan No. 3, influenced by broader environmental concerns including but not

Summa Theologica — The translation of the title 'Summa Theologica' is not 'It is a compendium...'; the correct translation is 'Summary of Theology' or 'Theological Summary'.

Summa Theologica — The Five Ways do appear in the Summa contra Gentiles (Book I, Chapters 13-14), not only in the Summa Theologiae.

Tartuffe — The archbishop's decree forbidding performance under pain of excommunication was issued in 1667, not immediately after the 1664 performance.

Tartuffe — The decree did not retroactively apply to watching a performance that had already occurred; it only forbade future participation.

Things Fall Apart — The entry states 'Arrow of God in 196', but the correct publication year is 1964.

To Kill a Mockingbird — Reader's Digest Condensed Books published a condensed version in 1961, not immediately after publication, and the book's wide readership was already established by that time.

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