A repeatable protocol for reviewing whether an entity is active, transformed, retired, discontinued, merged, acquired, or unknown.
Status Is Temporal
Every status statement must include a review date. Status is a dated observation, not an eternal attribute.
Separate the Layers
Company, legal entity, brand, product, platform, website, print edition, and digital publication can have different continuity states.
Minimum Verification
Review the official website, current publication or service activity, official closure or transition statements, corporate or regulatory records when relevant, and at least one credible independent source for disputed cases.
Prohibited Shortcuts
Do not infer closure from traffic decline, a weak search presence, an old design, a dormant social account, or a change in business model.
Relationship Block
- About the Archive contextFor
- Archive Methodology governedBy
- Source Confidence Framework supportedBy
- Correction Policy correctedBy
Structured Summary
- Primary entity: Entity Status Review Policy
- Page role: governance
- Review date: July 2026
- Archive version: 2026.07.28