The charter

How what is written here is checked

A local archive is worth as much as it can be checked. This page says by what criterion a source is chosen, which official sources must be cited, and shows the result of the internal checks recalculated now, as the page opens.

The rule

No date, no measurement, no name enters these pages with a single source. If the two do not agree the primary source prevails; if there is none, the disputed detail is not written.

The perimeter

Where we write, and where we do not

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Diagram

The path of a fact, before it goes on the page

Every date, measurement or name passes through here. There are three outcomes, and each one can be seen on the page: the fact written, the fact reduced to what the sources share, or nothing.

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For photographs

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What the site rests on

What lies beneath every page

The figures below are not written by hand: they are counted now, as the page opens, on the files the site is built from. If a file changes, they change too.

The sources, by family

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Every source is recorded in Sources with the use made of it and its limit. Here they are grouped by who produces them: who holds the document, who printed it, who remembers it.

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The official sources

Who holds the document

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The material

How an archive document is made

Plans and diagrams in the collection, each with its record: author, provenance, licence. Below, a newsreel from the Archivio Storico Luce, published by the archive itself: it is the kind of period document that decides a date when sources do not agree.

The catalogue

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Every photograph has its record with author, provenance and licence.

All the photographs →

The writing rules

Ten rules that do not bend

Ten writing rules. They apply to whoever writes here now and to whoever continues the work later, person or machine. They are not general principles: they are constraints on what can go on the page and in what form.

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Commitments

What we do, and what we do not

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Corrections

How a correction goes in

Documented corrections and removal requests come through the Facebook page «San Siro e dintorni». Each one is checked against the sources before going in, and is applied on all pages at once.

Curated by «San Siro e dintorni», Facebook page. It is not a City website, it sells nothing, it carries no advertising.

Where it continues

• The sources one by one, in Sources.
• The dossiers by lot, in Research.
• Privacy, licences and terms of use, in Legal notes.

Sources for this page

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The complete directory of official sources, with the selection criterion, is further down this page.

What this page rests on

Every fact is checked against at least two independent sources and, where one exists, the official source.