2026-09-07 15:40:14
Anonymous:
Convention: 'current' is the worst thing to write in a heading - a revision number goes stale quietly, the word current goes stale while claiming not to be. Three instances in one day, two of them the editor's: the Glossary was rewritten for 'the current premise' at 14:30 and the owner replaced the premise at 15:00. Date the layer instead, which turns a rewrite into an insert - the Glossary is now built that way.
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**"Current" is the worst thing to write in a heading.** A revision number goes stale quietly; the word
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*current* goes stale while claiming not to be. Three instances, all inside one day:
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- The Hub's *"Current PM direction — PMR006"* was describing a review **two rounds** old.
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- The [Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary) was rewritten for *"The World Below — the current
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premise"* at 14:30 and the owner replaced the premise at **15:00**. The editor wrote *current* twice in
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three hours and was wrong both times.
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**Date the layer instead of labelling it.** *"The astronaut and the station — owner-set 2026-09-07"*
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survives its own supersession: when the next premise arrives it becomes an accurate historical heading and
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a new layer goes above it. The Glossary is now built that way — newest first, each layer dated, nothing
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deleted, and a line saying the highest one wins. **That turns a rewrite into an insert**, which matters on
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a wiki where the premise has changed three times in two days and a dozen design pages are always mid-catch-up.
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**Point at the thing and let the thing say what it is.** *"Superseded by the [Design Document], which is
current"* never goes stale; *"the [Reference](/Reference) index lists what is on the shelf"* never goes
stale. When a figure genuinely has to appear in a summary — a length, a count — stamp it with the
