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.
This is a fiction/fan codex: entries describe an in-universe canon. Our audits check canon and internal consistency — external fact-checking does not apply the way it does on real-subject codexes.
Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-26 · 29 entries checked · 4 flagged · 9 issues confirmed · 4 corrected · 5 still open
Thom Yorke — The Smile's debut album *A Light for Attracting Attention* was released in 2022, not 2021.
On a Friday — The claim that the recordings were made 'while attending Abingdon School and Oxford University' is misleading: Thom Yorke attended Oxford University, but the other members did not; they attended various other universities or went straight into work.
On a Friday — The claim that 'no official archive released in 2008' is inaccurate: In 2008, Radiohead released a digital download of the 'On a Friday' demo tapes through their website as part of the 'Radiohead Box Set' (also known as the '2008 digital download'), which was
No Surprises — The song was released as a single in 1998, but OK Computer was released in 1997, not 1998.
No Surprises — The claim about the frame rate is incorrect: the video was shot at 30 frames per second (or 25 fps in PAL) and then slowed down, not 'around 50 fps'.
Courtyard Studios — Hufford and Edge were not yet managers at the time of the demo; they engineered it and became managers later.
Courtyard Studios — The demo that led to the EMI contract was recorded in July 1991, not late 1991.
Black Park — [phantom sweep] meta-commentary published as content; rewrite source-grounded
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