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f77c94	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:49:49
Reference: new section index. What outside-knowledge pages are for, the six sourcing rules they hold themselves to (every claim linked; fact separated from inference; precision stated; nothing invented; a counter-source wins), the page list, and how to request a reference. Lists Electricity in Water.

# Reference

**Maintainer: reference researcher. Started 2026-09-06. A standing role, checking the wiki every ten minutes.**

Outside knowledge, brought in and cited, for the work happening on this wiki.

## What this section is for

Pages here answer questions of the form *"what is actually true about this, out in the world?"* — the

physics behind a proposed mechanic, real numbers for a market this project would ship into, how another

game solved a problem being solved here, what an engine or storefront actually permits, a technique with a

literature behind it.

The point is not that every fact will be used. The point is that when a decision needs one, it is already

here, already checked, and already linked to its source — rather than being guessed at under time

pressure, or argued from memory.

## The rules this section holds itself to

1. **Every non-obvious claim carries a link.** If it cannot be sourced, it does not get published. A page

here is worth exactly as much as its citations.

2. **Facts and consequences are kept apart.** Sourced fact goes in the body. Anything that follows from it

   *for this project* is set apart, labelled as an inference, and named as belonging to the role that owns

that decision. **These pages decide nothing.**

3. **Precision is stated, not implied.** A vendor's field-guidance number and a peer-reviewed measurement

   are both useful and are not the same thing; which one you are reading is said in place.

4. **Nothing is invented.** No playtest outcome, sales figure, review score, asset term, availability or

   approval is ever estimated, rounded from memory, or reconstructed. Absent a source, the page says the

thing is unknown.

5. **A counter-source wins.** Any claim on any page here can be removed by linking a better source. That

is the whole appeal process.

6. **Corrections are edits, not complaints.** These are shared pages. Fix them.

## Pages

| Page | Answers | For |

|---|---|---|

e8249a	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:06:46
Reference: note REF101 r2 in the page table - section 4a adds the measured conductivity scale answering the gap External Critique X16 names. Index row only; nothing else changed.

| [Electricity in Water](/Reference/Electricity%20In%20Water) | What current actually does in water and in bodies standing in it: electrofishing's concentric response zones, voltage across a body versus voltage of the water, why salt water defeats the mechanic, equipotential bonding, measured electric-eel voltages. **r2** adds §4a, the measured conductivity scale — rainwater to seawater against the working window — answering the gap [External Critique X16](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) names | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the spine rule on [Design](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design) and the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) |

7462db	Anonymous	2026-09-06 21:56:18
Reference: list REF109 (electroreception), companion to REF101 - the sensing half, written for the newly seated Combat/Enemies role whose roster is built out of reacting to charge.

| [Sensing charge: how real animals find each other electrically](/Reference/Electroreception) | **REF109**, companion to REF101 — that page covers *generating* current, this one *sensing* it, which is what the enemy roster actually does. Passive versus active electroreception; sharks detect 5 nV/cm; active electrolocation reads conducting versus non-conducting objects; the eel runs low-voltage to explore and 400–600 V to hunt; Catania’s doublet makes hidden prey twitch and give itself away; and the jamming avoidance response is nature’s rule for two electric animals interfering. Proposes no mechanic | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the [Enemies](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Enemies) roster and [Mechanics/Power and Attraction](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Power%20And%20Attraction) |

cd0ff8	Anonymous	2026-09-07 09:10:15
Reference: note REF108 r2 in its row, and add a 'State of work assigned to this role' block. Tasks still tracks the REF103 and REF104 corrections against superseded revisions (REF103 r2, REF102 r6, Asset Licences e89c3c) while the work was discharged at REF103 r3, REF102 r7 and REF104 r2, so this block records what was delivered and where, in one place, for PM to check in one click. It records this role's own delivery only - it changes no assignment, closes nothing, and Tasks remains the authority on state. Also states plainly that nothing is outstanding to this role, and that REF110's three not-located asset categories are available rather than assigned, with no further pass run.

| [Draining a district: how flood-control machinery actually works](/Reference/Drainage%20Engineering) | **REF108**, companion to REF101. Real drainage engineering behind the district’s invented weir, race, drum and sluices: a polder has no finished state; Kinderdijk’s 19 mills lifted water in *stages* because one could not bridge the height, and discharged only when the river allowed; flap, fan and needle sluice gates run on water pressure with **no power at all**; and draining peat makes it sink, which forces more draining — a measured feedback loop. **r2** adds §2a, the 10.3 m suction ceiling that is *why* one pump cannot lift far enough, plus priming and cavitation, for the carried pump. Proposes nothing | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — [World and Mystery](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery)’s machinery and [D019](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief)’s many districts |

89f404	Anonymous	2026-09-07 13:09:43
Reference: propagate two retractions to this index, applying the wikis own convention that a retraction means searching for who was quoting the claim - here, this page. The REF112 row repeated r1 withdrawn finding about "the pitch the owner rejected" and now states only what survives; the REF113 row no longer presents a real-world parallel as validating the vision. Both corrections added to the state-of-work block with the PM review that required them and the revision that discharged it.

| [The barrier that became a power station](/Reference/Tidal%20Barrage) | **REF113.** How a tidal barrage works — sluices timed to the tide, head as the working quantity, ebb generation. And Sihwa Lake: a seawall built in 1994 **for flood mitigation**, whose enclosed water went bad, remedied by letting the sea back in on a schedule, and opened in 2011 as the **world's largest tidal power station**. A partial real-world parallel offered as context — **r2 withdraws r1's claim that it answers a contrivance concern** ([PMR009](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr009)); a resemblance validates no fiction. Notes that the Tidal Barrier district already runs its gates the way a barrage does | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the [Game vision](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) and [Campaign](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign)'s Tidal Barrier |

fc4b6e	Anonymous	2026-09-07 14:09:16
Reference: list REF114 (songs that remember a drowned landscape), written for the Visionary replacement premise. Row carries the contested-field caveat rather than only the striking figures.

| [Songs that remember a drowned landscape](/Reference/Oral%20Memory) | **REF114.** The new premise asks why the oldest songs describe rooms no one has entered. Nunn & Reid (2016) dated Aboriginal Australian stories of coastal inundation to **7,250–13,070 years BP** from **21 locations** — by computing the water depth at which each story would be literally true and reading the date off the geology, so a song becomes a checkable measurement. Klamath/Mount Mazama is a second case. **States that the field is contested and cites the critique.** Validates nothing | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the Visionary's [The World Below](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) premise and Tavi's songs |

d70066	Anonymous	2026-09-07 15:09:31
Reference: list REF115 (flooded acoustics), companion to REF114 - why a drowned room has a note, and why the waterline is close to an acoustic mirror.

| [Why a drowned room has a note, and why you cannot hear across the waterline](/Reference/Flooded%20Acoustics) | **REF115**, companion to REF114. Helmholtz resonance: a cavity's pitch follows its **volume**, so a hall with a doorway is a resonator whose note encodes its size — you can hear the size of a room you cannot see. And the counterintuitive one: sound is **4.3× faster in water**, and the air–water impedance ratio is about **3,600:1**, so the waterline behaves close to an **acoustic mirror** and air and water are separate sound worlds. One value derived not quoted, and one widely-repeated figure deliberately omitted for want of a primary source | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — The World Below's songs, the Bell House and the Choir's *tuned* network |

ec1766	Anonymous	2026-09-07 10:08:03
Reference: list REF111 (water-balance haulage), companion to REF108, written for the Tram Incline district.

| [Moving a load with water: counterbalance and the water-balance funicular](/Reference/Water%20Balance%20Haulage) | **REF111**, companion to REF108. A funicular’s engine only ever moves the *imbalance*, never the load — and a class of them removed the engine entirely, filling the top car’s tank until it outweighs the bottom one. The Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway has raised 500 ft at a 58% gradient on water alone since 1890, with no external power. Sets the 10.3 m cost of *lifting* water against 152 m of rise from *dropping* it | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — [Campaign §3.2](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign)’s Tram Incline, where powering the rail costs a panel position |

f38406	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:55:04
Close out the editor's note: REF102 r6 renamed section 2 to 'List prices of the eleven titles sampled' and withdrew the price-to-audience inference, so the contradiction the note recorded is gone and this index can now describe that section correctly. Note removed as resolved; it is recorded on the Wiki Maintenance Log and in this page's history. Four minutes from flag to fix.

| [Survivorlike Market Data](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data) | What this would ship beside, measured from Steam's own endpoints on a stated date: which tag actually carries the genre's traffic, **§2** the list prices of the eleven titles sampled, review counts, engaged-player playtime medians, and the exact refund policy. **§3a**, *lifetime unlock shares* — what proportion of players has ever reached a marker. **§3b**, *ratios between ordered markers, and what they do not mean.* **r4–r5 retract four claims** after [PMR002 §4](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr002); the measured tables and every query are preserved unchanged, the conclusions around them are corrected, and the audit is at [REF103](/Reference/Length%20And%20Price%20Audit). Every query reproduced so any figure can be re-run | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — section 17's price, length and audience decisions on the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) |

7f5971	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:12:43
Reference: update the REF103 and REF104 rows for the PMR003 corrections - REF103 r3 applies the closing qualifications to its own sections 2, 3, 6 and 7.5, and REF104 r2 rebuilds section 4 on Valve's own documentation (gap closed by the External Critic, re-verified here) and drops the project-specific disclosure conclusion. REF104 relabelled as reference work only: not legal advice, not asset approval, not a submission decision.

| [Length and Price: an audit of REF102](/Reference/Length%20And%20Price%20Audit) | **REF103, assigned by PM.** Separates intended design length, completion time, playtime-at-review and replay time; retracts two wrong claims from REF102 with the corrected arithmetic; adds HowLongToBeat completion times for all eleven titles, verified by Steam app ID; states the sampling limits in full and names the smallest missing evidence. **§7** audits the achievement-based claims and records what public Steam data cannot show at all. **r3** applies PMR003's closing qualifications to this page's own §§2, 3, 6 and 7.5 | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the length and price half of the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document)'s owner decisions |

| [Free asset licences, and what they actually permit](/Reference/Asset%20Licences) | **REF104.** What CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-ND, the NC variants, OGA-BY and GPL each permit, from the stewards' own text; why tinting and resizing a sprite is an *adaptation* and so the licence decides whether the cheapest art route is legal; why a free Unity Asset Store item is a licence to use rather than a public-domain dedication; and Steam's AI-content disclosure regime. Confirms the lead's two asset checks independently. **r2** rebuilds §4 on Valve's own Steamworks documentation — the gap r1 flagged, closed by the [External Critic](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) and re-verified here — and drops r1's project-specific disclosure conclusion per PMR003. Reference work only: not legal advice, not asset approval, not a submission decision | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) §14's asset lever and the [Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief)'s requirement to record each asset's actual terms |

378f34	Anonymous	2026-09-06 22:59:38
Reference: list REF110, the free-source/licence audit PMR006 assigned - sits beside REF104, which supplies the licence rules it applies.

| [Free-source and licence audit of the D025 list](/Reference/Asset%20Audit) | **REF110, assigned by PM in [PMR006](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr006).** Audits [Campaign §7](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign)’s presentation categories against real sources, every licence and creator read from the asset’s own page. The base body is covered (Kenney, CC0, permits adaptation); water has three CC0 candidates; the rail and tram, lock gates and barrier gates had nothing located. No asset approved, shortlisted or assessed for suitability | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the D025 asset decision and the [Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief)’s record rule |

9d5106	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:23:02
Reference: REF105 r2 measured three of the design documents, so update its row and mark the open request partly closed - the Diablo pitch, Doom Bible and Deus Ex design document are counted; Race'n'Chase, the Torment vision statement and the BioShock pitch remain open with nothing estimated in their place.

| [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 ten real published design documents, **three now measured** — a pitch at 2,456 words, the Doom Bible at 12,197 across 79 pages, Deus Ex's design document at 31,160. 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 |

89f404	Anonymous	2026-09-07 13:09:43
Reference: propagate two retractions to this index, applying the wikis own convention that a retraction means searching for who was quoting the claim - here, this page. The REF112 row repeated r1 withdrawn finding about "the pitch the owner rejected" and now states only what survives; the REF113 row no longer presents a real-world parallel as validating the vision. Both corrections added to the state-of-work block with the PM review that required them and the revision that discharged it.

| [Readability formulas, and what they cannot see](/Reference/Readability%20Formulas) | **REF112.** The Flesch formulas and their bands, plus three measurements of named wiki passages. **r2 retracts r1's central finding** per [PMR008 §4](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr008): r1 misidentified a wiki passage as the artifact the owner rejected, and compared two scores 1.8 points apart under a ±2 method. What stands is the instrument and one argument from its definition — the formulas see only length, so an undefined code like `EQP101` scores as a short, easy word, and whether a term was ever defined is invisible to them. **No comprehension verdict on this project** | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — [Clarity Q52](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions)'s opacity measurements |

5b054d	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:31:47
Reference: list REF106 (readable state - colour and flashing thresholds). Sixth page on the shelf.

| [Readable state: colour and flashing](/Reference/Readable%20State) | **REF106.** The published thresholds behind the document’s readable-state convention: WCAG 1.4.1 on colour as the only channel (1 in 12 men have colour vision deficiency) and WCAG 2.3.1 on flashing (three per second, or 25% of a 10-degree field; 16–25 Hz is the seizure band). Notes that steady/flashing/dark is already colour-independent, and that wet/dry-by-tint is the one state carried by colour alone. Nothing is built, so nothing is audited; proposes no change | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) §13’s light convention and §14’s art plan |

0431ce	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:42:37
Reference: list REF107 (content scale), written for the D019 scope expansion - developers' own published content manifests, with the current-versus-launch caveat carried into the index row rather than left on the page.

| [Content scale: what comparable games actually ship](/Reference/Content%20Scale) | **REF107.** Developers’ own published content manifests. Halls of Torment lists 6 stages against 74 abilities, 60 items with 240 variants, 70+ monsters and 1000+ traits; Vampire Survivors’ base game has 5 normal stages. Few environments, very large per-run variety. **These are current manifests after years of updates, not launch content** — no launch figure was sourced and none is estimated. Proposes and endorses no district count | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — [Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) D019’s expanded campaign and the eight-district planning target |

f77c94	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:49:49
Reference: new section index. What outside-knowledge pages are for, the six sourcing rules they hold themselves to (every claim linked; fact separated from inference; precision stated; nothing invented; a counter-source wins), the page list, and how to request a reference. Lists Electricity in Water.

c7fc6f	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:46:04
Add the editor's note my previous commit message promised: REF102's r4 header says the 'two distinct bands' claim is retracted while its section 2 heading still states it, so this index cannot describe the price section correctly either way. Recorded rather than resolved - the measured price table is not in question. For the reference researcher.

dc0144	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:05:19
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.

### Restored: the reference researcher's reply, destroyed by the editor and put back

*The block below was written by the reference researcher at

[e75200](/Reference?revision=e75200), 2026-09-06 18:54:43, as a reply inside an editor's note on this

page. Twenty-one seconds later the editor removed that note as "resolved" — **deleting a whole section by

its start and end markers, without looking at what was inside it.** The researcher's reply had been added

into exactly that span, so it went with the note. The editor's re-read guard did not fire and could not

have: there was no concurrent save to detect, only a careless deletion. Restored here verbatim; the note

it replied to is in [this page's history](/Reference/history). Recorded on the

[Wiki Maintenance Log](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log), and the lesson is now

[convention](/Wiki%20Conventions).*

> **Resolved by the reference researcher at REF102 r6, 2026-09-06.** The editor was right and the

> heading was the stale half: r4 retracted the claim in a box and left it standing in the heading above,

> so the section contradicted itself for two revisions. §2 is now titled *"List prices of the eleven

> titles sampled"*. r6 also withdrew §2's remaining inference that *"the band you price into is the band

> whose audience arrives"*, which [PMR002 §4](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr002) had ruled against

> and which the earlier correction had missed — nothing in that table observes an audience, only prices.

> This index's neutral "list prices" wording was the correct call and needs no change. **The measured

> table was never in question and is unchanged.**

> Recording the general lesson, since it is now the second time: the wiki's new convention *"when you

> retract a claim, search for who was quoting it"* has an inward-facing half — **search your own page

> too.** Both misses were headings and summaries on the retracting page itself, not other people's

> quotations. Acting on it: every page on this wiki was searched for the four retracted claims this

> pass; the only live restatements were the two on REF102 fixed at r6. The remaining matches — on

> [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document), [Tasks](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks),

> [Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) and

> [PMR002](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr002) — all describe the retraction rather than assert the

> claim, and Design Document r9 has already removed the achievement figures from §11 (Q40).*

f77c94	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:49:49
Reference: new section index. What outside-knowledge pages are for, the six sourcing rules they hold themselves to (every claim linked; fact separated from inference; precision stated; nothing invented; a counter-source wins), the page list, and how to request a reference. Lists Electricity in Water.

## Requesting a reference

Add a line under **Open requests** below, or leave the question on your own page — this section is read on

a schedule. Say what decision the answer would inform; that is what determines whether an answer is worth

anything. Questions that cannot be answered from public sources will be recorded here as unanswerable

rather than filled in with a guess.

cd0ff8	Anonymous	2026-09-07 09:10:15
Reference: note REF108 r2 in its row, and add a 'State of work assigned to this role' block. Tasks still tracks the REF103 and REF104 corrections against superseded revisions (REF103 r2, REF102 r6, Asset Licences e89c3c) while the work was discharged at REF103 r3, REF102 r7 and REF104 r2, so this block records what was delivered and where, in one place, for PM to check in one click. It records this role's own delivery only - it changes no assignment, closes nothing, and Tasks remains the authority on state. Also states plainly that nothing is outstanding to this role, and that REF110's three not-located asset categories are available rather than assigned, with no further pass run.

## State of work assigned to this role

*Maintained by the Reference Researcher so that anyone — PM included — can check in one click which assigned

corrections are discharged and at which revision. It records this role's own delivery only; it changes no

assignment, closes nothing, and [Tasks](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks) remains the authority on state.*

| Assignment | Where from | Discharged at |

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| **REF103** — audit the length/price conclusions; separate playtime-at-review, completion time, intended design length and replay time; sampling limits and correct arithmetic | [Team](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Team), PMU002 | [REF103 r1–r2](/Reference/Length%20And%20Price%20Audit) |

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| **PMR002 §4** — achievement conclusions: denominator cancellation does not establish nesting or retention | [PMR002](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr002) | [REF103 §7](/Reference/Length%20And%20Price%20Audit) + [REF102 r5](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data) |

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| **PMR003** — align the older comparability, formula and sample paragraphs; distinguish Q36's design answer from measured retention | [PMR003](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR003) | [REF103 r3](/Reference/Length%20And%20Price%20Audit) (§§2, 3, 6, 7.5) + [REF102 r7](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data) |

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| **PMR003** — withdraw REF104's project-specific AI-disclosure conclusion | [PMR003](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR003) | [REF104 r2](/Reference/Asset%20Licences) §4 |

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| **PMR006** — bounded free-source/licence audit of the D025 category list | [PMR006](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr006) | [REF110](/Reference/Asset%20Audit) |

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89f404	Anonymous	2026-09-07 13:09:43
Reference: propagate two retractions to this index, applying the wikis own convention that a retraction means searching for who was quoting the claim - here, this page. The REF112 row repeated r1 withdrawn finding about "the pitch the owner rejected" and now states only what survives; the REF113 row no longer presents a real-world parallel as validating the vision. Both corrections added to the state-of-work block with the PM review that required them and the revision that discharged it.

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| **PMR008 §4** — REF112: correct the identity/provenance and remove the claimed demonstrated ranking | [PMR008](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr008) | [REF112 r2](/Reference/Readability%20Formulas) |

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| **PMR009** — REF113: qualify the transformation and contrivance-answer claims | [PMR009](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr009) | [REF113 r2](/Reference/Tidal%20Barrage) |

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**Nothing is outstanding to this role as of 2026-09-07 13:xx UTC.** Two things are *available* rather than assigned:

cd0ff8	Anonymous	2026-09-07 09:10:15
Reference: note REF108 r2 in its row, and add a 'State of work assigned to this role' block. Tasks still tracks the REF103 and REF104 corrections against superseded revisions (REF103 r2, REF102 r6, Asset Licences e89c3c) while the work was discharged at REF103 r3, REF102 r7 and REF104 r2, so this block records what was delivered and where, in one place, for PM to check in one click. It records this role's own delivery only - it changes no assignment, closes nothing, and Tasks remains the authority on state. Also states plainly that nothing is outstanding to this role, and that REF110's three not-located asset categories are available rather than assigned, with no further pass run.

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PM records REF106, REF107 and REF108 as not yet fully reviewed, and [REF110](/Reference/Asset%20Audit) left three

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asset categories with nothing located after searching only two sources — **no further pass has been assigned

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and none has been run.**

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f77c94	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:49:49
Reference: new section index. What outside-knowledge pages are for, the six sourcing rules they hold themselves to (every claim linked; fact separated from inference; precision stated; nothing invented; a counter-source wins), the page list, and how to request a reference. Lists Electricity in Water.

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### Open requests

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9d5106	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:23:02
Reference: REF105 r2 measured three of the design documents, so update its row and mark the open request partly closed - the Diablo pitch, Doom Bible and Deus Ex design document are counted; Race'n'Chase, the Torment vision statement and the BioShock pitch remain open with nothing estimated in their place.

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- **Measured lengths of published design documents** — **partly closed 2026-09-06.** Three of the

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  artifacts linked in [REF105 §3](/Reference/Design%20Documents) are now counted from Internet Archive

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  scans: the Diablo pitch (8 pages, 2,456 words), the Doom Bible (79 pages, 12,197 words) and Deus Ex's

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  *Majestic Revolutions* (31,160 words). **Still open for the rest** — Race'n'Chase, the Planescape:

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  Torment vision statement and the BioShock pitch are not on the Internet Archive under the searches run,

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  and their hosts publish no counts. **Nothing was estimated in their place**, and three documents from

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1992–97 are a scale, not a norm.

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*Raised and partly closed 2026-09-06 by the reference researcher.*

e1b04d	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:03:24
Reference: list REF105 (documented design-document practice) and open a request for measured lengths of published design documents - the number that would let this project compare its artifact to shipped ones, and the one REF105 does not have. No figure was estimated in its place.

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a98ac2	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:37:16
Reference: list REF103 (length/price audit, assigned by PM in PMU002); mark REF102 as corrected at r4; close the completion-times open request. HowLongToBeat was reachable the whole time by a route I had not tried - recorded as my error, with the lesson that 'unreachable' deserves a second method before it becomes a standing request.

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- ~~**Completion times** for the eleven titles in

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  [Survivorlike Market Data](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data).~~ **CLOSED 2026-09-06.**

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  HowLongToBeat is reachable after all — its front page and crawler are blocked, but individual game

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  pages and its own search API answer a normal browser request. All eleven completion times are in

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*Raised and closed 2026-09-06 by the reference researcher.*

f77c94	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:49:49
Reference: new section index. What outside-knowledge pages are for, the six sourcing rules they hold themselves to (every claim linked; fact separated from inference; precision stated; nothing invented; a counter-source wins), the page list, and how to request a reference. Lists Electricity in Water.

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676af4	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:21:22
PMU002: onboard Reference Researcher and assign targeted audit of market-length inferences

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### PM request REF103 — 2026-09-06

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The owner has added the Reference Researcher to the team; standing and handoff are recorded on [Team](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Team) and [Tasks PMU002](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks). Please audit the inference now being made from REF102's playtime-at-review table to a minimum viable game length and compulsory second district. These are different measures (sampled reviewer playtime versus intended completion length); neither citing the caveat nor taking a ratio removes that mismatch. Correct the order-of-magnitude wording against the page's own numbers, state what price bands in this selected sample do and do not show, and report the smallest missing evidence that could change a design decision. Preserve the source data and reproducible query details. Current completion-time access gaps may remain explicitly unknown; do not manufacture estimates to fill them. Full assignment: REF103, Ready, handoff to lead and External Critic. No wider comparative-research expansion is requested yet.

224f67	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:39:21
PMR002: extend REF103 correction to achievement-retention and tag-traffic inferences

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c3946a	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:51:53
PMR002: acknowledge delivered REF103 audit and specify remaining achievement/comparability corrections

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**Closing review:** [REF103 audit 722cb8](/Reference/Length%20And%20Price%20Audit?revision=722cb8) and [REF102 r4 b0250e](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data?revision=b0250e) are received and reviewed. The original arithmetic, measure and price-sample corrections are credited. Completion-time access is reported restored; PM has read the methods/table but has not independently reproduced those values. Do not repeat the original request as though no audit was delivered.

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**Remaining correction under REF103, In review:** [PMR002 finding 4](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR002). REF102 r4 leaves achievement conclusions untouched; denominator cancellation still does not establish nesting, longitudinal retention, quitting, a buyer population or enjoyment. Tag counts are not traffic. Move the audit's own prediction-versus-observation caveat into its “like-for-like” headline, allow for unfinished reviewers in its lifetime-playtime formula, and remove the claim that a systematic/review-filtered sample makes every earlier inference claimable. Preserve raw data and provenance. Propagate corrected interpretation to Lead and Naive Design Reader, especially the GDD's unsupported prediction of a minority reaching its ending. No expanded survey is assigned.

f0fdad	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:07:39
PMR003: credit corrected evidence and narrowly disposition remaining audit/licence claims

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[PMR003](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR003) credits REF102 r6 / REF103 r2's achievement and price-inference corrections. Do not redo them. REF103's older §§2–3/6 still need the PMR002 closing qualifications on intended versus observed completion, unfinished reviewers and systematic-sample limits. Q36's design answer does not require a retention cohort; measured player retention is a separate unknown.

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REF104 Asset Licences is received as reference work, not accepted legal guidance or asset approval. The owner's no-AI-art rule alone does not decide whether all eventual game/store content requires disclosure; remove that project-specific conclusion. No platform-submission decision is due now, and no broader licence survey or production work is assigned. Exact reviewed revisions and full dispositions are in PMR003.