# Admiralty Scale

The Admiralty Scale (also called the NATO System) is used to rank the reliability of a source and
the credibility of an information.

## Source Reliability

<dl>
<dt>A</dt>
<dd>Completely reliable</dd>
<dt>B</dt>
<dd>Usually reliable<dd>
<dt>C</dt>
<dd>Fairly reliable </dd>
<dt>D</dt>
<dd>Not usually reliable</dd>
<dt>E</dt>
<dd>Unreliable</dd>
<dt>F<dt>
<dd>Reliability cannot be judged</dd>
</dl>

## Information Credibility

<dl>
<dt>1</dt>
<dd>Confirmed by other sources</dd>
<dt>2</dt>
<dd>Probably true</dd>
<dt>3</dt>
<dd>Possibly true</dd>
<dt>4</dt>
<dd>Doubtful</dd>
<dt>5</dt>
<dd>Improbable</dd>
<dt>6</dt>
<dd>Truth cannot be judged</dd>
</dl>

# Machine-parsable Admiralty Scale

The repository contains a [JSON file including the machine-parsable tags](machinetag.json)
along with their human-readable description. The software can use both
representation on the user-interface and store the tag as machine-parsable.

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admiralty-scale:source-reliability="b"
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