When we get something wrong, we fix the article and say so on it. We do not quietly edit and move on. This page collects every correction in one place so the record is checkable without hunting through articles.
Spotted an error? Email info@wehpa.com with the article and the specific claim. You do not need to prove it — pointing at it is enough for us to check.
Corrections to published articles
26 July 2026 — Foods to Limit During and After Cancer Treatment
The article stated that industrial seed oils are pro-inflammatory and listed them among the most harmful fats, citing Simple Wikipedia. This was wrong, not merely contested. The American Heart Association states there is no reason to avoid seed oils, and reviews of omega-6 intake have not found they raise inflammation in humans. The section was rewritten to separate the real concern — partially hydrogenated oils and repeatedly reheated frying oils — from the folk one. The Wikipedia citation was removed and replaced with the American Cancer Society, WHO/IARC, the World Cancer Research Fund and the AHA. Given this is health information read by people in treatment, it is the most serious error on this list.
26 July 2026 — What Is a Paletero?
The article claimed 1.5 million paleteros operate in the United States, and twice referred to an annual Paletero Festival in San Diego. Neither could be traced to any source — on the statistic, this article was itself the internet’s top result, which is how a number with no origin becomes a fact. Both were removed, along with a definition of paletas as a cream-based ice cream, which describes only paletas de leche.
26 July 2026 — Where Did Reggaeton Come From?
The article said police and the National Guard raided record stores in Puerto Rico in 1995, merging two separate operations. The 1995 raids were carried out by the Drugs and Vice Control Bureau; National Guard deployments belong to the separate Mano Dura Contra el Crimen policy. The two are now distinguished.
26 July 2026 — Hip-Hop Was Invented by a Jamaican Immigrant
Two corrections. The origin story was told without Cindy Campbell, who organised the 1973 party, made the flyers and took the money at the door — it was her event, and leaving her out repeats a well-documented erasure. Separately, Shirley Chisholm was described as the first Black woman to run for president; Charlene Mitchell ran in 1968, four years earlier. Chisholm was the first to seek a major party’s nomination.
26 July 2026 — What Is Elote?
The article described lime and chilli as ancient Mesoamerican flavour partners. Chilli, yes — but limes are not native to the Americas. Citrus arrived after 1492, so lime on elote is colonial, not ancient. The same error was caught before publication in two other food articles.
28 July 2026 — What Are Pupusas?
The article gave the etymology as a single Nahuatl word, pipilztli, meaning “swollen.” That form does not appear in any source we could check. It has been replaced with the range of candidates scholars actually propose — pupusawa, púpu with tsa, and putsúua — and the origin now credits the Lenca alongside the Pipil. A Wikipedia citation was removed.
28 July 2026 — Is Mexican Coke Really Better?
Two changes. A Reddit thread was cited as the source for a claim about federal corn subsidies; it has been replaced with the USDA Economic Research Service. And the article’s conclusion was out of date: it said the cane-sugar taste had been “legislated out of the American bottle,” but Coca-Cola began reintroducing a US cane-sugar cola in 2025, rolling out through 2026. The ending has been rewritten.
28 July 2026 — Bruno Mars Is Half Puerto Rican, Half Filipino
A Wikipedia citation was replaced with Honolulu Star-Advertiser reporting. The headline’s “half Puerto Rican, half Filipino” is a simplification: his father is of Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Jewish descent, his mother Filipino and Spanish. The article now says so.
28 July 2026 — Abuela Rituals
Three Wikipedia citations were removed. They pointed at Florida Water, rue and rose water as substances and never supported the claims about how the practices are used. A heading also read “Your abuela rituals has been doing this for free since 1962” — a grammatical break caused by keyword insertion — and has been fixed.
28 July 2026 — Clean Girl Aesthetic: The 90s Chola Truth
Three Wikipedia citations were removed and replaced with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino and an academic paper from Exeter College, Oxford.
28 July 2026 — The 4 Reggaeton Moguls Who Built the Business
A Wikipedia citation was removed. Because the article profiles four living people and its industry history is not independently documented, its claims are now framed as the account given within the genre rather than as verified record. It also clarifies that “godfathers” here means label and business figures, not the genre’s founding artists — a confusion that produced an error in our reggaeton history article, since corrected.
28 July 2026 — Rita Moreno: 7 Showbiz Moments
The headline misspelled Rita Moreno’s surname as “Morena.” The article also referred to her in the past tense; she is alive and working. Both fixed. The URL still carries the misspelling because changing it would break inbound links — the page itself is correct.
Caught before publication
These were fixed in draft and never went live. We record them because the point of a standard is that it catches things, and because two of them are claims widely repeated elsewhere.
- Afro-Mexican history — a draft stated that Diego Rivera had African ancestry. It is widely repeated and not documented. Removed.
- Vanilla — a draft named the Melipona bee as vanilla’s natural pollinator and credited Edmond Albius as sole inventor of hand-pollination. A 2024 peer-reviewed review in Plants finds no evidence for the bee and traces the claim to a misread 1884 account. Both are now presented as contested, with the challenge to the Albius account labelled as the minority position it is.
- Piñatas — a draft stated the Marco Polo transmission story as established fact. The book attributed to Polo mentions nothing resembling a piñata. The article now presents the Chinese link as the tentative academic hypothesis its own proponent calls it.
- Hispanic Heritage Month — a draft described Sylvia Rivera only as “a pivotal voice for civil rights,” omitting that she was a transgender activist, present at Stonewall, who co-founded STAR with Marsha P. Johnson.
- Selena — a draft carried no sources and mangled formatting mid-sentence. Award and chart claims now come from the Handbook of Texas and Billboard.
What else changed
Two articles were found to be written in the first person by someone other than our named author. Rather than attach a byline that would have been false, the reggaeton production piece now carries an authorship note pending identification of its writer, and SPIN El Poeta and Jon Kabongo are now correctly credited to Maria Alejandra Guardado and Jasmin Mombourquette.
Two articles offering health and financial advice without a credentialed author have been removed from search indexing rather than rewritten. They remain readable.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Wehpa correct its mistakes?
Yes. We fix the article and add a dated correction note to it, and log it on this page. We do not silently edit.
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What was Wehpa’s most serious correction?
An article on food during cancer treatment stated that seed oils are pro-inflammatory, citing Wikipedia. The American Heart Association contradicts this. Because it was health information aimed at people in treatment, it is the most serious error we have corrected.
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AI assists with drafting. Every article is directed by a named human writer and every factual claim is verified against a named source before publication. Errors that get through are logged here.
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