Everything written on this site is intended to be used: quoted, corrected, argued with, printed out and taken to a village to check against what people there say.
Where a page cites a source, go to the source. The gazetteers, the settlement reports, the census directories and most of the older books are out of copyright and free.
Where a page says it has not been checked against a primary document, treat it as a starting point and not as an authority.
Where a page is wrong, the correction is more valuable than the page.
Nothing here is a substitute for going to the place, and the project says so on every page because it is the single most important thing about it.
The people who know are still alive and are not being asked. That is the whole argument.
The text here is written to be copied. If a school, a gurdwara committee, a panchayat or a student wants a page for anything, they should take it and use it.
A correction should carry what it corrects: the page, the sentence, and where the better information comes from. A correction without a source is another claim.
Photographs of what a page describes are worth more than more text about it. A memorial, a gate inscription, a mound, a shrine, a mill, photographed once, becomes a record.