The Wire Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

This is a fiction/fan codex: entries describe an in-universe canon. Our audits check canon and internal consistency — external fact-checking does not apply the way it does on real-subject codexes.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-23 · 35 entries checked · 11 flagged · 24 issues confirmed · 11 corrected · 13 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Andre Royo — The entry repeatedly describes Andre Royo's character as a 'stick-up man' and 'Omar', but Andre Royo played Bubbles, not Omar.

Andre Royo — The 'Signature Weapon=Shotgun (often a Mossberg 500)' and 'TAGLINE: The man with the golden whistle who stole from dealers and kept his own code' describe Omar, not Bubbles.

Wendell Pierce — Freamon does not mentor William Rawls; Rawls is a deputy commissioner and Freamon's superior, not a younger detective.

Wendell Pierce — Freamon does not retire in the series; he is forced out of the Major Crimes unit and later returns, but is not shown retiring.

D'Angelo Barksdale — D'Angelo did not offer information about Wee-Bey Brice's location after the shooting of Kima Greggs; he offered information about the murder of William Gant and other details.

Duquan Weems — Dukie is not a 'corner boy' in the traditional sense; he is a vulnerable youth on the periphery of the drug trade, never depicted as a regular corner dealer or soldier.

Duquan Weems — Dukie is not associated with low-level dealers under Michael Lee and later the New Day Co-Op; Michael Lee is never a member of the Co-Op, and Dukie's only association with the Co-Op is through Michael.

Barksdale Organization — The Barksdale Organization's prized territory was the Franklin Terrace towers (high-rise projects), not low-rise row houses.

Barksdale Organization — The funeral parlor is not explicitly shown as a money laundering front in the show; the primary fronts are Orlando's and B&B Enterprises.

Stringer Bell's Crew — Stringer was directly involved in ordering D'Angelo's murder, not unaware of it.

Stringer Bell's Crew — Stringer gave Clay Davis $250,000 as a bribe for help with securing grants, not as an investment in a scheme.

Stanfield Organization — Savino Bratton is not a former Barksdale enforcer who later operates as a soldier in the Stanfield Organization; he is a Barksdale soldier who defects to Marlo's crew in Season Three, but he is killed by Omar Little in Season Three, not with multiple gunshots

Stanfield Organization — Melvin 'Cheese' Wagstaff does not join Marlo for a short time before Marlo's retirement; Cheese is a member of Proposition Joe's organization and later the Co-Op, and he betrays Joe to Marlo, but he is not depicted as joining Marlo's organization before Marlo'

Stanfield Organization — The claim that the Barksdale Organization is destroyed at the end of Season Three is inaccurate; it continues in diminished form into Season Four.

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