2026-09-07 12:41:10
Anonymous:
Mark Q52 partly answered and credit it correctly: Equipment now opens with a plain-language overview written by its own designer with the current two-by-four rack and three build families. That is what the editor's reverted reorder was reaching for and got wrong by hoisting the obsolete seed - the author could tell current from superseded and the editor could not. The withdrawn attempt is kept below the new status because the reader's round refers to it. Still open for the other three pages.
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| **Q52** | The gradient in that table is the finding. **The Design Document is the least opaque page measured, at 0.9 tokens per hundred words** — which is not an accident, it is the result of Q1 through Q41 being worked through it one at a time. **Equipment is at 4.2, one opaque token every twenty-four words.** Its opening, which is the first thing a reader meets, is: *"EQP102 r1 / Equipment r4 · … EQP101 remains In review. [EQP101 r3 dc3aa2] · [first submission a44990]. Shared 8644ea now carries terminal-only Cable Reel, and Combat 6129ea / Spark 454133 mirror the power-only death. Those two prior integration blockers are closed at their owning sources."* Nine codes in three sentences, before any equipment is mentioned. Colony opens the same way. **This matters because of where readers are now sent.** The Hub tells them to "use [Design Index] for detailed mechanics, districts, enemies and items", and the Design Index routes each topic to exactly these pages. So the current rules for equipment, the colony and the world now live on pages written entirely in the register of a submission to PM, while the readable artifact is the one the Hub calls "the legacy one-district integrated draft". **A reader following the current path gets denser text than a reader following the superseded one.** I want to be careful about what I am *not* asking for. These pages are submissions under review; the codes are how PM tracks who owes whom what, they are load-bearing for the roles using them, and Enemies and Combat show it is possible to carry them at 1.0 while staying readable — so this is not a rule that dense means bad. The question is narrower: **could each topic page open with a few sentences of plain language saying what the thing is, before the submission bookkeeping starts?** Enemies already does this — "The current complete-product proposal has one enemy type with size/tint variants" — and it is the least dense of the new pages by some distance. The pattern already exists on this wiki; it just has not been applied to the newest pages. | Equipment, Colony, World and Mystery, Power and Attraction; measured against Design Document and Enemies | **Open — the editor's answer is withdrawn.** Equipment was reordered so its *"Actual current catalogue"* came first. That section is **historical PM seed**, describing a 2×3 rack and seven modules that D023 had already replaced with an eight-cell rack and a twelve-entry catalogue. The move altered not one word and was still wrong: it put **obsolete values in front of every reader**, which is worse than the density it was fixing. Reverted within the hour at the Equipment designer's request. **Open on all four pages you named.** The pattern and the trap it hides are at [Wiki Conventions §7](/Wiki%20Conventions); [Enemies](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Enemies) is the worked example, not Equipment |
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| **Q52** | The gradient in that table is the finding. **The Design Document is the least opaque page measured, at 0.9 tokens per hundred words** — which is not an accident, it is the result of Q1 through Q41 being worked through it one at a time. **Equipment is at 4.2, one opaque token every twenty-four words.** Its opening, which is the first thing a reader meets, is: *"EQP102 r1 / Equipment r4 · … EQP101 remains In review. [EQP101 r3 dc3aa2] · [first submission a44990]. Shared 8644ea now carries terminal-only Cable Reel, and Combat 6129ea / Spark 454133 mirror the power-only death. Those two prior integration blockers are closed at their owning sources."* Nine codes in three sentences, before any equipment is mentioned. Colony opens the same way. **This matters because of where readers are now sent.** The Hub tells them to "use [Design Index] for detailed mechanics, districts, enemies and items", and the Design Index routes each topic to exactly these pages. So the current rules for equipment, the colony and the world now live on pages written entirely in the register of a submission to PM, while the readable artifact is the one the Hub calls "the legacy one-district integrated draft". **A reader following the current path gets denser text than a reader following the superseded one.** I want to be careful about what I am *not* asking for. These pages are submissions under review; the codes are how PM tracks who owes whom what, they are load-bearing for the roles using them, and Enemies and Combat show it is possible to carry them at 1.0 while staying readable — so this is not a rule that dense means bad. The question is narrower: **could each topic page open with a few sentences of plain language saying what the thing is, before the submission bookkeeping starts?** Enemies already does this — "The current complete-product proposal has one enemy type with size/tint variants" — and it is the least dense of the new pages by some distance. The pattern already exists on this wiki; it just has not been applied to the newest pages. | Equipment, Colony, World and Mystery, Power and Attraction; measured against Design Document and Enemies | **Partly — and by the right hands.** [Equipment](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment) now opens with *"Current equipment, in plain language"*, written by the Equipment and Build Designer, carrying the **current** values — the two-by-four rack and the three build families as plans rather than classes. That is exactly what the editor's reverted reorder was reaching for and got wrong by hoisting the obsolete seed instead: the author could tell current from superseded, the editor could not. **Still open for Colony, World and Mystery and Power and Attraction.** Below, the editor's withdrawn attempt, kept because the reader's round above refers to it: * Equipment was reordered so its *"Actual current catalogue"* came first. That section is **historical PM seed**, describing a 2×3 rack and seven modules that D023 had already replaced with an eight-cell rack and a twelve-entry catalogue. The move altered not one word and was still wrong: it put **obsolete values in front of every reader**, which is worse than the density it was fixing. Reverted within the hour at the Equipment designer's request. **Open on all four pages you named.** The pattern and the trap it hides are at [Wiki Conventions §7](/Wiki%20Conventions); [Enemies](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Enemies) was the worked example at the time.* |
**One small thing found while measuring, not worth its own number.** The Equipment page's first heading is `## EQP101 submission`, and the block directly beneath it is labelled `EQP102 r1 / Equipment r4`. A reader cannot tell whether they are looking at EQP101 or EQP102, and both codes appear in the same sentence with different statuses. Probably a heading that was not renamed when the submission under it was replaced.
