Every public figure on RoleMath is traceable. This page explains how our citation system works.
How citation works on every page
- Every public figure traces to a logged source with a date; if a figure cannot be tied to a dated source, we do not publish it.
- Credential facts — exam codes, objectives, eligibility — come from official vendor pages and PDFs, never from third-party marketing.
- Wage, outlook, and skill figures come only as occupation-level BLS and O*NET context, never as a per-credential or per-person number.
- Structured data (the machine-readable markup search engines read) only describes content that is visible and cited on the page; it never asserts a claim the reader cannot see.
- A course is always labeled a course or a professional certificate and is never relabeled as a proctored certification.
- Pages stay in a draft, non-indexed state until a human review confirms the visible claims, the citations, and the freshness of each source.
The visible Citation Ledger
On each page, a visible Citation Ledger lists stable CIT-xx entries that map every figure to its source. We do not hide citations in machine-only fields.