Transparency
Corrections and update log
Factual corrections are made within 48 hours of verification and logged, dated and described at the foot of the article. Changes to the scoring model itself are logged the same way - when we found that Lifetime Achievement honours were being scored as Performer of the Year wins, we published the fix and the resulting rank changes rather than quietly re-running the build. Cadence: Full re-audit every six months; award pillars updated within 14 days of each major awards ceremony. Next full audit: 2027-02-20.
2026-08-26
structure
The page now opens with all six people in a table — name, profession, what each is known for — instead of with the explanation of why nobody is ranked. Five paragraphs of methodology above the six people were cut to three short ones. Nothing factual moved: every name, source, award record, correction and exclusion is unchanged.
2026-08-26
note
The withdrawn ordering, in full, for the record. All three crossovers hold top-tier adult-industry honours, so the Recognition pillar separated nobody, and the first edition had to cut Recognition to 14% and Body of Work to 12% to stop the composite misleading — a composite that has to be disarmed to be usable should not be published. Structurally, a crossover category is an intersection of two populations, so all three ranked slugs were already ranked elsewhere: 33.3% ranked-roster overlap against a 20% anti-doorway cap, with our Indian pornstars, male-performer-name, most-beautiful-performers and performer-moms pages. The intersection explains the breach and does not excuse it; a cap any page can argue its way out of is not a cap. That reasoning is an engineering note, not reading matter, and it no longer appears in the body of the page.
2026-08-26
correction
Descriptions of how this page was researched removed from reader-facing copy throughout — search-result vocabulary, keyword volumes, and sentences about what was checked and what was found. Facts in which a search engine is an actor in a subject’s own story are kept, including Google removing Poonam Pandey’s application from its store within an hour of launch in 2017.
2026-08-25
structure
The ranked index was withdrawn and this page now ships as a rosterless explainer. Sunny Leone, Mia Malkova and Johnny Sins moved from the ranked roster to the unranked companion roster, joining the three Hindi-screen figures already there. All six keep full profiles, facts, award records and sources; none carries a rank number or a composite score. No factual claim, source or name changed.
2026-08-25
note
First reason, published rather than implied: the ordering was not meaningful. All three crossovers hold top-tier adult-industry honours, so Recognition separated nobody, and the real difference between twelve Hindi releases, two online-only films and one television commercial is a difference in kind. The first edition had to cut Recognition to 14% and Body of Work to 12% to stop the composite misleading, which is an admission that the composite was the wrong instrument.
2026-08-25
note
Second reason, and the defect logged as D5 in the wave-3 plan: a crossover category is an intersection of two populations, so all three ranked slugs were already ranked elsewhere in the programme. Against a three-name roster that is 33.3% ranked-roster overlap with four separate articles — our Indian pornstars, male-performer-name, most-beautiful-performers and performer-moms pages — against a 20% anti-doorway cap. The intersection argument is a true explanation and not a defence; a cap any page can argue its way out of is not a cap. Removing the ranking clears all four breaches at once, because companion-roster slugs are excluded from overlap counting.
2026-08-25
structure
The re-weighted scoring rubric was removed. A page that ranks nobody should not publish a re-weighted ranking rubric, and the argument it carried has been rewritten as prose where readers will meet it. The sub-list section was converted from performer cuts to research findings for the same reason.
2026-08-25
correction
Explicit job titles added to the Sunny Leone, Mia Malkova and Johnny Sins records, as the three Hindi-screen records have always carried. Every person on this page is now described in the structured data by their actual profession rather than by a schema default — which is the machine-readable form of the distinction the page is about.
2026-08-22
edition
First edition published. Three crossover cases scored on Index v2.1 with category-adjusted weights: Influence 34%, Recognition 14%. Superseded on 25 August 2026 by the entries above.
2026-08-22
structure
Unranked companion roster added for three Hindi-screen figures. Each carries an explicit job title in their record so that no structured-data output describes any of them as an adult film performer.
2026-08-22
correction
Seven misidentification cases documented with sources, including four fabricated-video cases from November 2023 and the 2004 Jammu CD case, in which the Hyderabad forensic laboratory found the disc did not contain the accused woman’s images. No photographs published in that section.
2026-08-22
exclusion
Priya Anjali Rai’s reported 2012 Bollywood debut excluded from the documented crossings: announced in trade coverage with no verifiable release and no confirmable title. She remains ranked on our Indian index on the strength of her 2009 AVN Award.
2026-08-22
sourcing
The Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Pandey subscription-platform and application entries rest on English Wikipedia’s article on pornography in India and on each subject’s own biography. No claim about explicit film work is made for either, because no source supports one.
2026-08-22
note
Legal position updated to the Information Technology Amendment Rules, 2026, notified 10 February 2026 and effective 20 February 2026. The previous 36-hour and 24-hour deadlines are retained in the industry section for context because they governed the 2023 and 2024 cases described on this page.
