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For Drug Eye Africa editorial. An authority publishing its own country’s news uses its own page and its own credential — this one publishes under our name, not theirs.

Every piece names at least one source: a record on this register, an authority’s own publication, or a named media report. Nothing written here creates or alters a record, and no source outside the register reaches a manufacturer profile.

Who is writing

Editor token private

Issued by npm run editor add. We hold only its hash, so it cannot be looked up or resent — a lost one is reissued.

The piece

Title

Which kind

Standfirst — optional

The piece 0 words · 20–150

Plain text. Paragraph breaks are kept; markup is not interpreted anywhere this is shown. A digest item is our summary of somebody else’s reporting — the ceiling is what keeps it a summary.

What it was written from

At least one, of either kind. A piece that names nothing is a claim nobody can check, and this is the one rule the newsroom will not bend.

Records on this register — optional

Alert ids, separated however you like. Each is checked before anything is saved: one we do not hold is named back to you rather than quietly dropped.

Sources elsewhere — optional

One per line: kind | url | publisher | title | date. The last two are optional. Kind is media or authority_publication. These are shown as links we have not verified, with the publisher named.

Publishing puts this on the public site immediately, signed Drug Eye Africa editorial team, with your name recorded against the decision. A published piece can be withdrawn later — it keeps its URL and says why in place of the body.

No token? One is issued at a terminal with npm run editor add "Name" name@example.org — deciding who may publish under this masthead is a decision somebody takes, not a form somebody fills in. Back to the newsroom.