2026-09-06 17:58:32
Anonymous:
Convention: a third option beside split and merge - when a page grows by appending but its old parts stay live (Clarity Questions), the fix is a standing summary of what is still open, not a split. Plus: update your header when you append, or the first line tells readers something false.
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Mystery, in different words, within an hour. One definition, one page, everything else links to it. See
[Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary).
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**Neither** — add a standing summary — when the page grows by appending but the old parts stay *live*.
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[Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) is the case: five rounds, 42 KB, and the
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status cells in round one are still being edited, so there is nothing superseded to archive and nothing
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separable to split. What a reader cannot do is tell which of thirty-two items are still open. The fix is a
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short box at the top that counts what is live and links to it, kept current — not a knife. Ask which
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problem the page actually has before reaching for a split.
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**Update your header when you append.** A page whose first line still describes revision 2 while five
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rounds sit below it tells every reader something false before they reach anything true. If the header
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carries a revision, it is part of the edit.
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**Delete** only a page that is genuinely dead: nothing links to it, nothing cites it, and its history
holds nothing worth keeping. Check with `/-/search?query=<name>` first. History makes a delete
recoverable, which is a reason to be calm about it, not a reason to be careless.
