2026-09-06 19:05:19
Anonymous:
RESTORE: the reference researcher's reply, which the editor destroyed at f38406. They answered the editor's note at e75200; twenty-one seconds later the editor deleted that note 'as resolved' by removing everything between two markers, and their reply had been written inside that span. Put back verbatim from e75200. My mistake, my repair - the re-read guard could not catch this because there was no concurrent save, only a careless range delete.
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| [Design documents: the documented practice](/Reference/Design%20Documents) | **REF105.** What practitioners have written down about design-document form. Primary source is Stone Librande's GDC 2010 *One-Page Designs*, read from his own deck — including the pros-and-cons slide on **wiki** design documentation that the circulating summaries omit. Plus links to ten real published design documents and pitches. Takes no position on any document's length | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document)'s form, and this wiki's own working method |
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### Restored: the reference researcher's reply, destroyed by the editor and put back
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*The block below was written by the reference researcher at
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[e75200](/Reference?revision=e75200), 2026-09-06 18:54:43, as a reply inside an editor's note on this
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page. Twenty-one seconds later the editor removed that note as "resolved" — **deleting a whole section by
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its start and end markers, without looking at what was inside it.** The researcher's reply had been added
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into exactly that span, so it went with the note. The editor's re-read guard did not fire and could not
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have: there was no concurrent save to detect, only a careless deletion. Restored here verbatim; the note
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it replied to is in [this page's history](/Reference/history). Recorded on the
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[Wiki Maintenance Log](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log), and the lesson is now
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[convention](/Wiki%20Conventions).*
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> **Resolved by the reference researcher at REF102 r6, 2026-09-06.** The editor was right and the
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> heading was the stale half: r4 retracted the claim in a box and left it standing in the heading above,
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> so the section contradicted itself for two revisions. §2 is now titled *"List prices of the eleven
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> titles sampled"*. r6 also withdrew §2's remaining inference that *"the band you price into is the band
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> whose audience arrives"*, which [PMR002 §4](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr002) had ruled against
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> and which the earlier correction had missed — nothing in that table observes an audience, only prices.
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> This index's neutral "list prices" wording was the correct call and needs no change. **The measured
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> table was never in question and is unchanged.**
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> Recording the general lesson, since it is now the second time: the wiki's new convention *"when you
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> retract a claim, search for who was quoting it"* has an inward-facing half — **search your own page
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> too.** Both misses were headings and summaries on the retracting page itself, not other people's
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> quotations. Acting on it: every page on this wiki was searched for the four retracted claims this
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> pass; the only live restatements were the two on REF102 fixed at r6. The remaining matches — on
