News Archive Takedown and Wire Limit Register

In publishing and information services, a news archive is not a fixed record. Stories are removed under legal settlements or unpublishing decisions, wire copy and agency photos may only be kept for a set window, and some names are anonymized by agreement. This concept illustrates a register of read-time rules in SemanticFed that decides what staff archive search and reader-facing answers may show, applied across the publisher's archive in TheCulturePost, the editorial system and the wire feeds through SemanticFed's policy model.

These decisions tend to live in email threads and legal files while the archive keeps serving the original rows. A removed story can resurface in staff search, and a reader-facing assistant can quote a passage the paper agreed to withdraw. Deleting the rows outright loses the record of what was decided and why. The concept is designed to leave the archive intact and apply each decision when the archive is read, with the reason and evidence kept beside the rule.

The page sits under Policies, headed Archive rules and described as what staff search and reader answers may show, with source chips for the archive in TheCulturePost, the editorial system and the wire feed. Tabs split all, active, proposed and retired rules. The register lists each rule with its type, effect, the number of items it covers, where it applies and its status. In the sample, wire copy past its thirty-day archive window and wire photos whose agency window has ended deny rows in the thousands, a settlement removal denies a single story, and all three apply to Botlit and staff search. A proposed anonymized-name rule for a court report is expanded to show each field, the proposed mask, such as initials only for the person's name and the name removed from the photo caption, and the evidence, an unpublishing request approved by standards, above Approve & activate and Reject. A proposed rule to unpublish an obituary at a family's request applies to Botlit.

An Applied today panel shows the rules at work, with sample counts of passages withheld at the Botlit reader archive desk and results hidden in staff archive search. The design intent is that TheCulturePost remains the archive of record and Botlit answers readers from it only through these rules. A note in the same panel says licensing terms stay on each item's rights notes in TheCulturePost; in the design, freelance one-time use and wire resale terms are not held in this register but stay there and on license terms in ArtistryBase, which the licensing desk checks. A Guardrails panel states that proposals are created inactive, that activation needs a named editor and that every change is logged.