Source Center
We link, summarize, and rank — we don't republish. Every headline points back to the publisher who did the reporting.
Our policies
Every headline on Mountaineer Signal points back to the outlet that did the reporting. Click-throughs go to them — not to a mirrored article on our site.
No scraping behind paywalls. No copy-paste of full stories. No invented quotes or recruiting facts. If a source doesn't allow excerpting, we link without summary.
Our AI writes short, original-language summaries and a 'Why it matters' note for WVU fans. Summaries never exceed a few sentences and never substitute for the source article.
Anything written by a human staff writer carries a byline, role, and a 'Staff Column' tag. AI-generated context is labeled 'AI Summary' or 'AI Analysis'. The two are never blended.
How Signal Score works
Confidence labels
Paywalled sources
Some of the best WVU coverage sits behind paywalls — 247Sports, Rivals, On3, and The Athletic all employ dedicated Mountaineer beat writers. We monitor these outlets the same way a fan does: by reading what's publicly visible (headlines, ledes, social teases). When a paywalled story is clearly important, we surface the headline and a one-sentence context note that does not reproduce any subscriber-only content. If the publisher provides a public preview or lede, we may quote it with attribution. If nothing is publicly visible, we link with a "subscriber content" note and no summary.
No public preview available. We link and note it's subscriber-only.
Publisher shows a public lede. We quote it with attribution.
Story is freely available. We summarize as usual.
Sources we monitor
Publisher attribution & removal
Every story shows the publisher name, the time we surfaced it, and a direct link to the original article. Confidence and signal score are ours; the reporting is theirs. We never strip bylines, blur watermarks, or obscure the original source. If a publisher wants their name displayed differently (e.g., "WV Sports Now" vs "WVSN"), we change it within one business day.
Publishers can request that we remove a headline, summary, or both at any time — no justification needed. We will action removal requests within one business day. We will also honor requests to stop monitoring a source entirely if a publisher prefers not to be included in our feed.
To request a change or removal, email the site administrator at jbrooks@unisonsecurity.com.
If we get something wrong — a misattributed quote, an incorrect score, a factual error in an AI summary — tell us and we fix it immediately. Email jbrooks@unisonsecurity.com with the story link and the error. Corrections are noted publicly at the bottom of the affected story.
Every story shows the publisher name, the time we surfaced it, and a direct link to the original article. Confidence and signal score are ours; the reporting is theirs.
Tier 1: Official sources (WVU Athletics, Big 12). Tier 2: Credentialed beat writers and national outlets. Tier 3: Fan blogs, aggregators, and unverified accounts. Sources are re-evaluated quarterly. Questions? jbrooks@unisonsecurity.com.