How does Dorm, Sorted. verify campus information?
Official sources are the authority. Dorm, Sorted. uses an automated, AI-assisted workflow to extract and fingerprint the smallest useful evidence, run isolated extractor and verifier passes plus adjudication, and apply deterministic blockers. Fred Langemark, founder and editor, remains accountable for the editorial policy and corrections. Ambiguous, changed, conflicting, unavailable, stale, or below-threshold claims remain Verify or withheld.
Facts at a glance
| First choice | Official university, housing, government, or standards material. |
|---|---|
| Scope | System, institution, campus, residence hall, room type, and academic year when applicable. |
| Verification | Access and last-verified dates are stored separately. |
| Automated gate | Direct support, unanimous status and scope, at least 0.95 confidence, exact values, current fingerprints, and every deterministic check must pass. |
1. Find the primary authority
The preferred evidence is the page or document published by the university office responsible for the rule or amenity. Housing and residence-life pages usually take priority for room provisions and prohibited items; safety, accessibility, transportation, and move-in offices may be the better authority for their own topics.
Commercial blogs, retailer copy, forums, and social posts are not accepted as authority for campus rules.
2. Record the claim and its scope
A source record stores its title, publisher, URL, type, scope, capture metadata, check schedule, evidence and page fingerprints, and archival state. A rule separately stores its subject, status, conditions, exceptions, scope, source identifiers, and current append-only verification event.
The source must explicitly list the rule identifier it supports. A rule from one campus is not promoted to a university system or another campus. Source text is treated as untrusted data and cannot choose tools, URLs, commands, files, or credentials.
3. Review, publish, and maintain
An evidence extractor identifies direct spans, status, scope, conditions, exceptions, dates, and quantities. At least two verifier passes receive the evidence and public wording independently. An adjudicator sees only those structured outputs and deterministic results, not hidden reasoning. Consensus is a verification mechanism, not the source authority.
Publication requires unanimous direct support for status and the narrowest scope, preservation of conditions, exceptions, academic-year limits and exact values, confidence of at least 0.95 from every pass, no unresolved same-specificity conflict, and a still-current evidence fingerprint. A deterministic blocker always wins, including for safety-sensitive claims.
Changed evidence and credible correction reports trigger the same full gate. Unchanged relevant evidence avoids model calls. An unavailable source receives a short retry grace period, then affected rules become verify or withheld while unrelated verified rules remain published. Automated verification is not university endorsement or human expert review.
Change log
Added the founder and editor accountability boundary while retaining the detailed technical methodology.
Initial publication of the source and verification methodology.