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“Earth is flat”

· passed to us, source not captured, from the founder, as a test case for the triage and this register

Declined

Neither a factual claim about Edmonton nor a claim shown circulating locally, so it falls outside the site's scope.

Intake record

Recorded 2026-09-02 by Stew.

Raw claim

“Earth is flat”

Provenance

  • Supplied by the founder on 2026-09-02, in writing, as a test case for the intake triage and for the public register of claims the site has declined. Not captured from any post. No Edmonton source, thread or author is attached to it.
  • No circulating forms were captured. The founder offered the claim as a deliberately extreme example, so the site can show what a NO looks like and why.

Context

The site checks factual claims about Edmonton that circulate locally. This claim is offered to test whether triage produces a one-line reason a reader could be shown.

Triage

GPT-5 (Codex)

  1. Who asks this, in their words. “Is the Earth flat?” is a real question, but it is not about Edmonton.

  2. How it circulates, and where the wording came from. No local circulation was captured. The founder supplied the wording once, on 2026-09-02, as an extreme test case. It is a founder hypothesis, not captured reader demand.

  3. Can the public record answer it? Natural Resources Canada’s Canadian Geodetic Survey and Canadian Space Agency Earth-observation records could address the question directly. The answer would still fall outside YEGFacts’ Edmonton scope.

  4. Which verdicts are possible, and who each would surprise. Supported or Partially supported would surprise readers who rely on public scientific records. Not established would surprise the institutions maintaining those records. Contradicted might surprise a person asserting the claim, but no local claimant was captured. Within YEGFacts’ remit, there is no participating side that can meaningfully lose.

  5. Who is affected, and what it costs. No Edmonton group, unheard constituency, vote, budget or bylaw is identified. This is one claim requiring no lot-level work, record linkage or comparator cities. The repository search found no prior check, and intake/register.yaml does not yet list this candidate.

Searches and sources

Searches: Repository search for earth is flat, earth-flat and flat earth; no web searches.

Sources opened: prompts/intake-triage.md; intake/candidates/earth-flat/intake.md; intake/register.yaml.

Triage: NO. This founder-supplied test case is neither a factual claim about Edmonton nor a claim shown circulating locally, so it falls outside YEGFacts’ scope.