2026-09-06 23:25:29
Anonymous:
Fold one clause into the stale-pointer convention rather than adding a new one: an enumeration is a count in words. The editor's Glossary row named the six enemy roles and a seventh was published an hour later - same defect, new shape, and the editor wrote the convention it broke.
wiki conventions.md ..
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- The Hub said *"Both of the above sit in the Reference section"*. The shelf had grown to five pages,
three of them cited by the Design Document itself. That sentence was the editor's.
- This wiki's own open-questions box put a count in its heading. It was wrong twice inside ten minutes.
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- **An enumeration is a count in words.** The [Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary) listed *"the six enemy behaviour roles"* by name; a seventh, Floater, was published an hour later. Naming the members of a set someone else maintains is the same defect as counting them — the editor wrote this convention and then did it. If you list them for recognition, say which page owns the list and that yours does not track it.
**The mirror image: do not flag a gap in the middle of somebody's rollout.** The editor marked two
pages *"planned; not created"* on the [Design Index](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Index) and flagged a