How ToolGuild verifies what it publishes
How ToolGuild decides what a number on one of its pages is allowed to say.
Where this data comes from
Where the numbers come from
Every game rule ToolGuild encodes carries four things on the record: which source it came from, what kind of source that is, how it was verified, and the date somebody last confirmed it. All four are shown on the page that uses the rule — beside the answer in short, and in full when you open the sources panel.
ToolGuild prefers current first-party sources: a publisher's own support articles, patch notes and product pages. Community sites, wikis and other calculators are useful for understanding what players are actually asking, and they are not treated as evidence for a game mechanic when a first-party statement exists.
What "verified" means here
It means a person read the source and recorded what it says, along with the scope of what it covers. It does not mean ToolGuild agrees with it, and it does not mean the statement is universal. Where a publisher makes a claim in a narrow context — a rule stated in an article about one particular mission, say — ToolGuild records that context and applies the rule accordingly rather than quietly generalising it.
What ToolGuild does not do
ToolGuild does not datamine, decompile, or use content extracted from a game's files. It does not copy datasets out of other sites, and it does not treat "these facts are publicly visible" as permission to reuse a collection of them. Where the rights to a source are unclear, the source is not used.
Where a publisher has not stated something, ToolGuild says so on the page instead of filling the gap with a plausible number. That is why some figures are labelled as estimates and some questions are answered with "this depends on your game, so enter it".
When something changes
A dataset is versioned, and a version is never edited after the fact: a correction is published as a new version and the page moves to it. Every version records its own provenance, so what a page computed with at a given moment stays inspectable.
A verification interval passing is not, by itself, a reason to withdraw an answer. It queues a re-check and, where it matters to a reader, shows a freshness notice. An answer is withdrawn only when there is a substantive correctness, rights or safety problem behind it.
Corrections
If a figure on ToolGuild disagrees with what your game shows you, the figure is the thing that is probably wrong. Tell us which page and what you saw.