item status

Item status

Default statuses

By default, Check has five statuses:

• Unstarted — Unstarted items have not been processed by the team. Items added manually, via tipline, or through the browser extension are all 'Unstarted' by default.
• In progress — An item is actively being reviewed.
• Inconclusive — An item has been reviewed and the reviewer couldn’t determine the veracity of its claim.
• Verified — An item has been reviewed and the reviewer concluded the claim is correct.
• False — An item has been reviewed and the reviewer concluded the claim is incorrect.

Add a new status

To add a new status:

1. Navigate to the Statuses settings page.
2. Click New status.
3. Add a status and description.
4. Set a color for the status, which will make it easier to differentiate statuses at a glance.
5. Click Save.

For tipline workspaces only: Toggle 'Send message to requester' if you'd like to message the user who requested the item when you change an item to this status. For example, you could send a message to all requesters with a given claim, informing them that their message is now being reviewed whenever an item’s status is changed to In progress

Delete a status

To delete a status:

1. Navigate to the Statuses settings page.
2. Click on the three dots to the right of the status.
3. Click Delete.
4. Select a new status for items with the deleted status.
5. Click Move items and delete status.

Set a default status

All items created manually, by requesters in a tipline, or via the browser extension have the same default status. By default, that status is Unstarted. To change the default item status:

1. Navigate to the Statuses settings page.
2. Click on the three dots to the right of the status you’d like to make default.
3. Click Make default.

Translate statuses

For multilingual tiplines, when a fact-check report is in a language other than the workspace’s default language, the embedded status should match the report’s language. To ensure statuses match the language of fact-check reports, you can create custom translations of each status. To translate statuses:

1. Navigate to the Statuses settings page.
2. Click on the language listed at the top of the page.
3. Select the workspace language you’d like to translate the statuses into.
4. Translate each status. When appropriate, translate the message users receive when an item is updated to include each status.
5. Click Save.