Seeking Alpha Policy for Disputing an Article

If you have concerns regarding the accuracy of an article published on Seeking Alpha, you may respond immediately by leaving a comment below the article. Then, please email contact-editorial [at] seekingalpha.com, stating:

1) The article's headline, date of publication and URL (web link);
2) Your own full name and phone number; and
3) The precise concern you have regarding the article - quote the section(s) you dispute, and support your own position with specific sources. Include a URL for your sources, if one exists.

If our editorial team determines that the article contained a factual error, we will either make the correction ourselves or (if warranted) remove the article entirely.

If our editorial team determines that the dispute is either (1) a matter of interpretation of the facts, or (2) beyond the scope of our editorial team's research capacities, we will take the following steps:

1) Temporarily remove the article and indicate the reason on the article page;
2) Forward the disputant's query to the author (removing the name and email of the disputant), and request either a corrected version of the article or a statement that the author sees no need for a correction;
3) Request from the disputant a response to the disputed article, to be published on Seeking Alpha;
4) Upon receiving the response from the author, republish the disputed article (in corrected form, if that's the case), with a prominent, bold link at the very top pointing to the disputant's response - which is published at the same time. If the disputant chooses not not submit a publishable response, we will (at our discretion) include a statement at the top of the republished article, indicating that its accuracy has been disputed.

Note to companies: We welcome responses from publicly-traded corporations to articles about their stock, and will always consider them for publication with the same prominence as the article they are responding to.