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A wrong figure, a broken link, a mislabelled country, a document that does not match its record. Post it with the record identifier and what you expected. Corrections are treated as contributions, not complaints.

The interface is bilingual; most of the records are not. Beyond translation, what would have to be true for a francophone researcher to treat this as a primary source?

This library draws intervals rather than bare central values and marks projections explicitly. Does that read clearly to you, or does it just look like error bars nobody explains?

Publication schedules slip quietly. Knowing which sources have gone dark is as useful as knowing which are current.

Government PDFs move, get renamed, and disappear. What has actually worked for you — archived copies, identifiers, something else?

CFA franc zones, floating currencies and different base years in the same chart. What convention do you use, and what does it distort?

Not what is wrong with the data that exists, but what does not exist at all. Naming the absence is the first step to recording it as an absence rather than a zero.

This library asks for series name, unit, reference period, geographic coverage, source link and a stated limitation. Is that the right minimum? What would you add, and what is ceremony rather than substance?

ECOWAS, UEMOA and "West Africa" aggregates get quoted as if they were observations of a place. What labelling have you seen that actually prevents this, rather than relying on the reader being careful?

Every series has a point past which it stops carrying meaning — a break in methodology, a year nobody collected, a definition that changed. Name one you work with and say where its edge is. Answers here become caveats on the records that...