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Source anglaise : How records are connected

Source anglaise : What CityScroll means when it links two records, how to inspect that claim, and why some obvious relationships stay unlinked.

Source anglaise : Last reviewed 2026-09-06

Source anglaise : What a connection claims

Source anglaise : CityScroll connects records the city publishes separately — a notice to the agency that issued it, an agency to a vendor it awarded work to, a rule to the duty behind it. Every one of those connections is a claim, and every claim has a basis you can read.

Source anglaise : The claim is always narrow. It says these two published records refer to the same thing, and here is what made that identification. It never says one record caused the other, and it never says anyone did anything wrong.

Source anglaise : How the identification was made

Source anglaise : Open Comment ce lien a été établi on a connected record and you get the basis rather than a score. The labels distinguish three kinds of evidence.

Source anglaise : BasisSource anglaise : What it meansSource anglaise : How much weight it carries
Correspondance établie par un document publiéSource anglaise : The two records carry the same identifier the publisher issued — a procurement identifier, an agency code, a project numberSource anglaise : The strongest kind. The city's own key did the joining
Correspondance par rapprochement de documentsSource anglaise : The records were matched on their content, such as an organization's name, rather than on a shared identifierSource anglaise : Weaker. Names are written inconsistently, and different organizations share names
Accepté par une personneSource anglaise : Someone reviewed the pair and accepted itSource anglaise : As good as the review, which is why it is labelled rather than hidden

Source anglaise : The same panel names the relation itself — "issued rule", for instance — and links the official source the records came from. If a connection matters to you, that link is the thing to open.

Source anglaise : The connection has an address

Source anglaise : A connection you have opened stays in the address of the page. Copy the address and you can send someone the record with that specific claim already inspected, rather than telling them where to click. It is the same habit as keeping the address of a search: the link carries the state.

Source anglaise : Why an obvious relationship can be missing

Source anglaise : A connection that plainly exists in the world can still be absent here, and none of these reasons means the relationship is not real.

Source anglaise : What a connection is not

Source anglaise : A connection is not a finding. Two records being linked is not evidence that money moved improperly, that an official acted wrongly, or that a decision was made because of the other record. A named awardee on a contract does not mean that vendor is currently open to subcontractors, and a vendor appearing beside an agency repeatedly is a count, not a conclusion.

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