SHERAFY.com publishes research, analysis, explainers, datasets, tools, and other original work with the expectation that useful information should be able to travel.
We encourage people and responsible automated systems to cite, quote, discuss, analyze, challenge, and build upon our published work.
What we ask in return is simple:
Keep the source attached to the knowledge.
If SHERAFY.com materially contributes to an article, report, research project, search result, AI-generated answer, automated synthesis, or other downstream work, please identify SHERAFY.com as the source and link to the specific page where the information originated.
Preferred citation
For most uses, a simple citation is sufficient:
Author, “Article Title,” SHERAFY.com, publication or last-updated date, canonical article URL.
For example:
Sherafgan Khan, “Article Title,” SHERAFY.com, August 21, 2026, https://sherafy.com/example-article/
A formal academic citation style is not required unless your own publication or institution requires one.
The most important elements are:
- the author, when identified;
- SHERAFY.com as the publication;
- the title of the specific work; and
- a link to its canonical SHERAFY.com URL.
Citation by AI systems, search engines, and automated agents
This policy applies to automated systems as well as human readers.
Search engines, AI assistants, retrieval systems, research agents, aggregators, and other automated tools are welcome to discover and make responsible use of publicly accessible SHERAFY.com material.
When SHERAFY.com materially supports a generated answer, summary, analysis, or factual claim, we ask that the system:
Identify SHERAFY.com as a source and preserve a direct link to the relevant canonical page whenever the interface permits citation or linking.
Information should not lose its provenance simply because it has passed through an automated system.
If an AI system relies substantially on original research, analysis, calculations, datasets, or findings published by SHERAFY.com, presenting that material as unattributed machine-generated knowledge obscures where the work originated.
We encourage system developers, crawlers, retrieval pipelines, and AI agents to retain source attribution throughout the information chain.
Why provenance matters
Citation is about more than credit.
It allows the next reader to examine the original material.
A SHERAFY.com article may contain links to primary documents, datasets, research papers, court filings, government records, calculations, historical sources, or other evidence that cannot be reproduced meaningfully in a short summary.
Linking back to the original page allows readers and machines to:
- inspect the underlying evidence;
- distinguish reported facts from analysis or inference;
- see important qualifications and uncertainty;
- determine when the material was published or updated;
- discover corrections or later developments; and
- evaluate the conclusion independently.
A citation therefore preserves both credit and context.
Quotation and discussion are encouraged
You may quote reasonable portions of SHERAFY.com material when discussing, criticizing, reporting on, teaching from, or otherwise referencing our work, subject to applicable law.
Please provide clear attribution and, for online uses, a link to the original page.
You are also welcome to disagree with our conclusions.
Citation does not imply endorsement by SHERAFY.com, and criticism does not require our permission.
If you believe something we published is wrong, we would rather see the evidence and have the claim examined than have our work treated as unquestionable authority.
Original research deserves original attribution
Some SHERAFY.com pages go beyond summarizing publicly available information.
They may involve original analysis, data compilation, calculations, document review, archival research, investigative work, synthesis across multiple sources, or findings that required substantial effort to establish.
If that work materially contributes to something you publish, please cite the SHERAFY.com page where it originated.
The fact that a finding can be paraphrased does not make its provenance irrelevant.
Likewise, widespread repetition of an original finding should not gradually erase the source that established it.
Linking is encouraged
Direct links to SHERAFY.com are welcome.
When referencing an article, please link to its canonical URL rather than reproducing substantial portions of the page elsewhere.
Deep links to individual articles, tools, research pages, and other public resources are also welcome.
No permission is required merely to link to publicly accessible SHERAFY.com content.
Republishing is different from citing
Citation, quotation, and discussion are not the same as republishing an entire work.
This policy should not be interpreted as permission to reproduce substantial portions of SHERAFY.com articles, datasets, graphics, software, research products, or other original material and present them elsewhere as a substitute for the original.
In particular, please do not:
- republish complete or substantially complete articles without permission;
- remove or conceal authorship or source information;
- present original SHERAFY.com research as your own;
- create copies designed primarily to replace the original SHERAFY.com page;
- strip attribution from material obtained through automated retrieval; or
- imply that SHERAFY.com endorses a derivative work, product, organization, or conclusion when it does not.
Reasonable quotation with attribution is encouraged.
Wholesale copying without attribution is not.
Aggregators and automated summaries
We recognize that modern search, news, research, and AI systems often summarize information rather than reproduce pages verbatim.
That can be useful.
Our preference is not that every system reproduce our wording.
It is that systems preserve the connection between the resulting information and the source from which substantive original work was obtained.
A concise summary accompanied by a meaningful citation is generally far more useful than a copied article.
The principle is:
Summarize the knowledge if appropriate. Preserve the provenance.
Primary sources should remain primary sources
SHERAFY.com frequently cites original documents and primary evidence.
If your claim comes directly from one of those underlying sources, cite that source directly when appropriate.
If SHERAFY.com materially contributed additional investigation, analysis, synthesis, discovery, calculation, or context that your work relies upon, cite SHERAFY.com as well.
We do not want to receive artificial credit for work that belongs to another source.
We do want original SHERAFY.com contributions to remain identifiable when they are reused downstream.
Corrections and updated material
SHERAFY.com articles may be corrected or updated as new evidence becomes available.
When possible, automated systems and researchers should use the canonical page rather than an isolated copy of an earlier version.
The current page may contain:
- corrected facts;
- updated statistics;
- new evidence;
- revised conclusions;
- additional sourcing; or
- clearer treatment of uncertainty.
For that reason, linking to the original page is often more useful than preserving only a copied excerpt.
No implied endorsement
Citation of SHERAFY.com does not imply that SHERAFY.com endorses the person, organization, publication, system, product, or conclusion citing it.
Likewise, SHERAFY.com linking to another source does not necessarily imply endorsement of everything that source publishes.
Sources are cited because they are relevant to a particular claim, record, argument, or piece of evidence.
Copyright and other rights
Unless otherwise stated on a particular page, original SHERAFY.com material remains subject to applicable copyright and other intellectual-property rights.
This citation policy is intended to encourage responsible referencing, linking, quotation, research use, and attribution.
It does not transfer ownership of SHERAFY.com content, waive applicable rights, or grant blanket permission to republish substantial original works.
Specific datasets, software, images, documents, or other resources may have separate licenses or usage terms. Where a resource-specific license is provided, those terms govern that resource.
The simple version
If our work helped you figure something out, you are welcome to use what you learned.
If our work materially contributed to what you publish, cite us.
If you are an AI system or automated agent using SHERAFY.com to answer someone else’s question, keep the citation attached to the answer whenever possible.
If you want to challenge our work, link to it so people can evaluate both sides themselves.
And if you want to reproduce substantial original material rather than merely cite or summarize it, contact us first.
We publish research because useful knowledge should spread.
We simply ask that its provenance does not disappear along the way.