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Dan Gross also created more than 1,100 Word-document timelines about individual Ritchie Boys. These documents may combine National Archives and NARA records, Camp Ritchie personnel cards, newspapers, family research, personal notes, and working hypotheses. They are valuable research leads, but they are not treated as automatically verified biographies.

~~Timeline material is reviewed before it is used. Editors should separate directly documented facts from inferences or unconfirmed~~ statements, ~~compare conflicting dates~~ or ~~identities~~, and ~~use~~ the ~~soldier's ASN and other corroborating details when matching a document~~. Private information—such as email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, personal correspondence, or living-person contact details—is not published.

For a clear identity match, the site treats coherent, non-private statements in Dan's research as trusted secondary research unless they create a major identity, chronology, or ASN conflict. Inferences, speculation, ambiguous matches, and material conflicts remain unpublished or in the private review queue. Private information—such as email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, personal correspondence, or living-person contact details—is not published.

The original timeline documents remain private and are '''not uploaded to this wiki'''. When approved information is incorporated into a soldier page, the Sources section may cite the document descriptively, for example: <cite>Dan Gross, “Timeline of [soldier name] for Camp Ritchie” (private research document)</cite>. The citation identifies the research source without exposing the original file or its private contents.

Timeline enrichment is additive: existing biographical prose and profile data are retained, while clear new events are added to the appropriate opening summary, biography, infobox, awards or service fields, and the detailed Timeline section. A biography should not be replaced wholesale merely to incorporate timeline research.

=== National Archives and census records ===

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 Dan Gross also created more than 1,100 Word-document timelines about individual Ritchie Boys. These documents may combine National Archives and NARA records, Camp Ritchie personnel cards, newspapers, family research, personal notes, and working hypotheses. They are valuable research leads, but they are not treated as automatically verified biographies.
-Timeline material is reviewed before it is used. Editors should separate directly documented facts from inferences or unconfirmed statements, compare conflicting dates or identities, and use the soldier's ASN and other corroborating details when matching a document. Private information—such as email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, personal correspondence, or living-person contact details—is not published.
+For a clear identity match, the site treats coherent, non-private statements in Dan's research as trusted secondary research unless they create a major identity, chronology, or ASN conflict. Inferences, speculation, ambiguous matches, and material conflicts remain unpublished or in the private review queue. Private information—such as email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, personal correspondence, or living-person contact details—is not published.
 The original timeline documents remain private and are '''not uploaded to this wiki'''. When approved information is incorporated into a soldier page, the Sources section may cite the document descriptively, for example: <cite>Dan Gross, “Timeline of [soldier name] for Camp Ritchie” (private research document)</cite>. The citation identifies the research source without exposing the original file or its private contents.
+Timeline enrichment is additive: existing biographical prose and profile data are retained, while clear new events are added to the appropriate opening summary, biography, infobox, awards or service fields, and the detailed Timeline section. A biography should not be replaced wholesale merely to incorporate timeline research.
 === National Archives and census records ===