If formal analysis suggests that a text is integral, then its content should show appropriate consistency. If the formal indications were that the text has a time depth, then its content should show such variation as may be expected over time.
Some sequences included here are thus part of the argument for the theories themselves.
At the same time, they show what sort of Warring States social and political situation the theories collectively envision, and this composite historical construct may itself be tested against canons of plausibility, and against such archaeological evidence as may be available. Theories presented in the Summaries section and elsewhere on this site will obviously have gone through a certain amount of testing against this criterion before being made public. The sequences derived from those texts will thus tend to be plausible. There will always be people who presume, and indeed proclaim, in some instances in the face of personal knowledge to the contrary, that the text theories were contrived in the first place to yield those particular results. But as John Chadwick once observed of the Michael Ventris solution of Linear B, if all the output from a theory is valid, it scarcely matters what the input may have been.