Testing content for citability is a quick check of whether a standalone, understandable answer can be extracted from a prepared text. It is done before publishing and takes minutes. The process has three steps. First: feed the text to a model and ask it the questions the page is meant to answer; if it cannot compose an answer or starts making things up, specific data is missing. Second: pick a random paragraph and read it on its own, out of context; if it is not clear what it is about, the naming of the subject or a condition is missing. Third: check whether every number is accompanied by a unit and a validity period. The test reveals exactly the errors that get lost in the text during ordinary reading, and gradually changes the way the team writes.
See also: Definition Sentence at the Beginning, Contextual surroundings of a passage, Editorial content review.
