Molecupedia:Verifiability

This page documents a Molecupedia policy. It applies to every page, including talk pages, captions and the seven news publications that articles cite.

In a nutshell: Real science today. Dreams flagged as dreams. Story flagged as story.

Verifiability on Molecupedia means that every statement of fact is true and that a reader can check where it came from. The policy takes its wording from the company's guide for visitors, Keltar's Field Guide to Molecular Reality, whose motto is "Real science today. Dreams flagged as dreams. Story flagged as story." The guide is narrated by the company's mascot, a felt puppet.

Until 2012, Wikipedia's policy on the subject opened by setting the threshold for inclusion at "verifiability, not truth". Molecupedia asks for both. A sourced statement that is false is removed, and a true statement that cannot be sourced is left out. Molecupedia:About describes the encyclopedia under the same rule.

Facts about the company come from its public web pages, the MR1 repository and its commits, its videos, the messages it has posted to members, its patent and the registration records of its domains. A fact that appears only in the company's internal records is cited as "Company records", and the record itself is never named. Most of these sources are self-published. Wikipedia lets a self-published source describe its own author on several conditions, one of which is that the article not be based mainly on such sources. Molecupedia is based mainly on such sources, and says so at Molecupedia:Conflict of interest.

The Field Guide is used, with attribution, for statements about the company and its fiction, and never for statements about anyone else. Its reliability was discussed at Talk:Keltar, where an editor noted that a source which tells the reader it is scripted can be used for what the script says.

A news publication is cited only for the facts its piece actually reports.

Where the company's materials and the published science disagree, an article gives both and cites the science. A March 2026 post by the founder says that "Nobody outside the corps calls it molecular streaming yet". The article on the company quotes the post and then cites a paper in Nature of 2019, "Molecular streaming and its voltage control in ångström-scale channels".

Where two company sources disagree, the article uses the more public one and the disagreement goes to the talk page. Private documents gave 2016 as the company's founding year. The founder's public CV gives 2018, and so do the articles, for reasons set out at Talk:Molecular Reality Corporation.

A claim from a company chatbot is treated as the weakest kind of source. The statement that the demonpore 64 was "housed in a repurposed Atari 2600 case" is quoted with {{Better source needed}} after it.

Quotations are exact, and errors in them are kept and marked with {{Sic}}. A quotation is attributed to a document wherever possible: a tagline, a README, a commit message or a page of the company's site. No quotation is invented for a real person. Quotations from the company's characters are taken from the company's own text.

A fact that could not be checked is left out, and the gap stays visible. The Keltar article says that the puppet is "real, sewn and stuffed" and carries {{By whom}} after it, because no source names the maker. The tag stays until one does.

If a reader finds a false sentence, the company would like to hear about it. The contact details are on Molecupedia:About.

• Molecupedia:Manual of Style
• Molecupedia:Notability (molecules)
• Molecupedia:General disclaimer