Counterpedia User Manual

Choose a starting point and finish with either a better-understood subject, an original source you can cite, or a clearly defined question for further investigation.

Finish one small research task and keep enough information to return to what you found.

Recognize the main destinations, choose the next page for your question, and understand why some operations require a signed-in identity.

Search for the Statue of Liberty, identify the result type, open the NPS explanation, and record the source used to answer the color question.

Open the Statue of Liberty from a collection, inspect a recorded relationship, and compare an NPS explanation with a historical photograph record.

Follow two recorded relationships from a familiar subject, interpret their direction and origin, and leave with an identifiable research trail—not an unsupported conclusion.

Starting from a subject reference or Source Atlas, identify one document's issuer, title, version, permissible destinations, and whether retained material was actually shown.

Identify an entry's subject, status and source references; compare a claim with a specific document; and distinguish an allegation, a settlement, and an adjudicated verdict.

Build a small, attributable chronology and distinguish the participants' positions from the recorded decisions and the questions that remain open.

Locate a research pack and a document within it, inspect at least one underlying source, and retain the document's author, edition, artifact identity and reuse conditions.

Identify two versions of one record, read their differences and associated source context, and distinguish document, event, and revision dates.

Trace one statement to its reference, the document version behind it, and the specific passage — and tell source inspection apart from an assessment of support.

Prepare a statement and its source context, execute an authorized Check, examine its per-question outcomes and receipt, and preserve the result's stated limits.

Interpret a statement in context, identify what evidence it has, distinguish assessment states, and describe precisely what a receipt or document does and does not establish.

Preserve an eligible result under your account, return to it later, make a version-specific citation, share a public destination, and distinguish a permitted export from a private record.

Configure a documented client, read an identified record, follow a source reference through another permitted read, and compare what the agent receives with the human view of the same object and edition.

Finish a discovery-to-citation task, choose an optional statement assessment, return to the same material later, and reuse one identified object in another client without losing context.

Classify the problem, try one appropriate recovery, and retain enough non-sensitive details to reproduce or report it.