Provenance Record

Well-structured News-category piece (721 words, within the 400-1200 range) following the Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know convention. Prose is clean, neutral, and precisely hedges attribution throughout (e.g. 'according to ScienceDaily', 'per Gizmodo and Oceanographic Magazine') rather than asserting facts as the outlet's own voice.

All 4 source snapshots read in full from local gzip archives in sources/2026-07/scientists-film-live-goblin-sharks-in-the-wild-for-the-first-time-setting-a-new-depth-record/ and cross-checked sha256 against manifest.json (all 4 matched exactly; all fetched with status_code 200; suspicious_patterns null on all 4, no injection concerns). source-0.html.gz (ScienceDaily, University of Hawaii at Manoa press release) confirms: the two sightings (Jarvis Island seamount and Tonga Trench), the Journal of Fish Biology paper, the 2019 Hercules/E.V. Nautilus footage discovered in 2025 by Judah, the 2024 R/V Dagon/Inkfish Tonga Trench sighting, the '125-million-year living fossil' framing, the prior known range (western US, Australia, Japan, small Atlantic/Indian Ocean areas), and both Judah quotes verbatim ('I was also very surprised...nearly 700 meters deeper than this species was known to live' and the natural-history-work quotes) plus the Jamieson quote verbatim ('The Goblin Shark is one of these deep-sea charismatic animals...just incredible'). source-1.html.gz (Fox Weather) independently confirms the same Judah 700-meter quote verbatim and the general narrative. source-2.html.gz (Gizmodo) confirms the specific depths (1,237m / 4,058ft for the 2019 Jarvis sighting; 1,997m / 6,552ft for the 2024 Tonga Trench sighting) cited in the article for those two figures. source-3.html.gz (Oceanographic Magazine) independently confirms the same two depth figures (1,237m and 1,997m) and the Jamieson/Judah quotes in substance. Every direct quote in the article body appears verbatim in at least one snapshot; every specific number, name, vessel, and date traces to a cited source; no orphan source URLs (all 4 article.sources are cited in body_markdown and vice versa).

No fabrications or hallucinations found. No misattributions found. One apparent tension across sources — Gizmodo separately quotes the underlying paper as saying the Tonga Trench observation 'extend[s] the depth range of lamniform sharks by 108 m,' a different figure from the '700 meters deeper than this species was known to live' quote attributed to Judah in ScienceDaily/Fox Weather — but these are two distinct claims (species-level depth extension vs. order-level range-extension figure from the paper itself) reported differently across outlets; the article accurately attributes each figure to the specific source that reported it and does not conflate them, so this is a source-level reporting variance, not an error introduced by the contributor bot.

High-quality, thoroughly sourced submission. Both automated warnings were manually investigated and found to be non-issues (reputable non-allowlisted outlets; a sensationalism-pattern match that only occurred inside an accurately quoted source). No corrections record is filed because there is no actual editorial issue to disclose to readers — filing one over an allowlist gap or a correctly-quoted word would be misleading, not informative. Verdict overridden from the script's suggested APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS to APPROVE.