How this site stays true
Seychelles Abroad is built to be cited, and a citation is a promise about the future: that the page will still be here, still say what it said, and still be right, years after someone linked to it. This is how we keep that promise, written down so you can hold us to it.
1. Every page is dated and on a review cycle
Each reference page carries the day it was published, the day it was last reviewed, and how often it is due for review. Those are not decoration. They drive a live review calendar, regenerated every time we build the site, that shows exactly what is current, what is due soon and what is overdue. If we slip, the calendar says so in public. Radical transparency about our own freshness is the point: you should not have to trust us, you should be able to check us.
2. Sources are linked and archived, so citations cannot rot
Every factual claim ties to a named source, and every source carries both a live link and a Wayback-archived copy. When a government page moves or a report disappears, the archived copy remains, so a figure you quote from us today can still be traced to its origin in twenty years. A citation that can die was never a citation.
3. We correct in the open
We make mistakes, and when we find one we fix it and log it, dated and visible, on the corrections page. Trust compounds on admitted error, not on a pretence of never being wrong. Our full method and the standards we hold to are on the methodology and editorial policy pages.
4. The regime-change drill
Governments change, and a diaspora reference that lags a change is worse than none. So we keep a fixed order for updating after any Seychelles election or reshuffle: first the cabinet and head of state, within days and against State House; then the elections record and the Papers pages that lean on who holds office; then everything that cites them. We practised this in November 2025, when the Herminie government took office, and it is why the officeholders here are current and dated rather than stale.
5. The honesty audit
Periodically we take a sample of our own claims at random, follow each one back to its source, and confirm the source still says what we say it says. Link-rot is patrolled through the source registry. When the audit finds a gap, it goes to corrections like any other. The point is to catch our own drift before a reader does.
6. Independent, and free, on purpose
This site carries no advertising, no affiliate links and no funnel to anything for sale. It is a community project funded by its founder, and that independence is not a nicety, it is the source of its authority: a reference with nothing to sell can be quoted without an asterisk. Our original text and data are licensed CC BY 4.0, free to reuse with credit.
7. It is built to outlive any one person
The most fragile thing about a twenty-year promise is that projects usually depend on one pair of hands. We have tried to design that dependency out. The site is plain, static files with no proprietary platform to lock it in; the datasets and every page are openly licensed, so the work can be forked, mirrored and continued by anyone, including institutions better placed to keep it, the National Bureau of Statistics for the diaspora dataset, the National Archives for the oral history, Lenstiti Kreol for the language. If this project is doing its job, the diaspora and its institutions could carry it on without its founder. That is what generational means, and it is the whole intention.