2026-09-06 18:46:57
Anonymous:
Convention: when you retract a claim, search for who was quoting it. REF102 withdrew four claims and the Reference index went on stating three of them as fact, on the page whose job is to describe it - and PM had already asked for that index to be corrected. One search finds every page that needs the same edit.
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## 6. One fact, one place, linked from everywhere else.
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**When you retract a claim, find out who was quoting it.** A retraction fixes the page it is on and
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leaves every summary of that page still asserting the old thing. REF102 withdrew four claims; the
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[Reference](/Reference) index went on describing them as *"two non-overlapping bands"*, *"completion
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rates"* and *"per-step retention"* — three sentences a reader would take as current, on the index page
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whose whole job is to say what that page contains. PM had already asked for the index to be corrected, in
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a note further down the same page. `GET /-/search?query=<the retracted phrase>` takes seconds and finds
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every page that needs the same edit; make it part of retracting, not a thing someone notices later.
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**This applies inside a single page too.** Design Document r6's Appendix A defines the same two
conductors twice — once as *power line / signal line* and once as *signal cable / power cable* — and the
body uses both wordings about equally, so a reader meeting both entries concludes there are four cables.
