Marcus Liao — Chief Reviewing Editor, Data Currency

Marcus Liao is the chief reviewing editor for data currency at Dragon Auto Guide. His job answers the question every static car guide avoids: is this still true? Each day he takes one covered car and re-checks its published data against fresh official sources — capped-price servicing schedules figure by figure, warranty terms, recall registers, government fuel-consumption data. Every page he audits gets a recorded verdict: current, stale, discrepancy or watch. At one car a day, a full pass of the site takes roughly three and a half weeks. Then it starts again.

What do the four verdicts mean?

Current — the page still matches the sources. Stale — a source has moved and the page needs updating. Discrepancy — the page and a fresh official source disagree, and the difference is flagged for resolution before anything changes. Watch — no error found, but the data looks likely to move, so the page stays under observation.

What is he not allowed to do?

Edit the pages. When he finds a stale figure or a discrepancy, he cannot correct it himself — the finding goes back through the same editing, language and technical gates as any new work. The person who spots a problem is never the person who quietly fixes it. That is deliberate.