Editorial policy

What the Graph is, and isn’t

The Open Creator Graph is a factual record. It isn’t an encyclopedia anyone can edit. It isn’t a ranking. It isn’t a dataset we sell.

Nobody pays to be listed here. Nobody pays to be verified. A Creator’s standing on the Graph is never for sale, not to the Creator, not to anyone else. There’s no scoring or leaderboard here, and that isn’t going to change.

How we handle facts we’re not sure about

If two public sources genuinely disagree, we show you both rather than quietly pick a winner. We’d rather look a little uncertain in the open than confidently wrong behind closed doors.

If the disagreement runs deeper, say the sources can’t even agree the record is about the right person, we hold the whole record back rather than publish a guess.

Getting a fact wrong is a correction. Getting the person wrong is a different kind of mistake, and we treat it that way.

Corrections and accuracy

Anyone can flag something wrong on a record. To do it, we ask for a verified contact detail, an email or a mobile number, so the report comes from someone we can actually reach. It keeps the process honest, and keeps a small team from drowning in spam. Nothing changes just because someone said so, we check every report against our sources before making any updates.

A Creator who has claimed and confirmed their record can correct it directly. That correction is clearly attributed to them when they do.

Age

We don’t independently verify anyone’s age. We rely on the eligibility rules already set by the platform a Creator is public on.

When a Creator claims their record with us directly, and where the law requires it, we’ll ask a parent or guardian to act on behalf of anyone under 18. And if we’re ever told a record involves someone who is a minor, a parent or legal guardian is welcome to act on their behalf, whether that means claiming the record, correcting it, or setting its terms.

What we promise about AI usage terms, and what we don’t

Let’s be honest about what we can promise here, and what we can’t.

A Creator’s AI usage terms are a clear, public, timestamped statement of what they will and won’t allow. They’re published in a form machines can actually read.

What we can’t promise: that every AI system out there will actually honour it. We don’t control whether a given AI model respects the terms it reads, only whether those terms are stated clearly enough that it has no real excuse for not honouring them.

We don’t promise inclusion either. Being legible to a machine and being chosen by one are two different things, and we’re only ever responsible for the first.

Removing yourself

A Creator, or a parent or guardian acting on their behalf, can ask for a record to come down at any time. It’s free. It doesn’t matter whether they were ever a Sparkonomy user.

Removing it takes the record down and removes every public contact route on it. What we can’t do is reach into every AI system or search index that already copied it before the removal. We remove what’s ours and tell crawlers the record is gone, but a copy taken earlier may still exist somewhere outside our control.

We respond within the timeframes required in your region, and we’ll tell you if we need more time and why.

You might also want to read About this record and How we source.