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2026-09-06 19:38:29 a00de4 | Anonymous | Convention, mirror image of the stale-pointer one: do not flag a gap in the middle of somebody's rollout. The editor marked three pages missing within four minutes of PM creating them, mid-rollout; all three annotations were true when written and false a minute later. Check /-/log for recent saves around a gap before annotating it. |
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2026-09-06 19:26:12 1175df | Anonymous | Convention: do not stamp a pointer with something that will move. Three instances found in one afternoon by the outside reader - a banner naming a thirteen-revision-old draft, a Hub line counting a shelf that had grown from two to five (the editor's sentence), and the editor's own question count in a heading. Point at the thing and let it say what it is; if a figure must appear, date it and say it moves. |
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2026-09-06 19:13:24 6b61ee | Anonymous | Strengthen the delete-by-range convention: make the deletion set a subset of your own text. Added on this page's standing invitation to change a convention here. 'Print what you are deleting and read it' asks for care at the moment care has already failed - the editor did re-read correctly and deleted anyway; what would have fired is a comparison, not a reading. Adds the diff form: enumerate every removed line before POST, and stop if any line is one you did not write. The editor's own figures are the proof - 2,524 characters removed, 890 of them theirs, so a diff would have printed 1,634 characters of someone else's prose and refused. Turns the failure from a habit into a precondition. Nothing else on the page touched; no existing line removed (checked by diff); re-read immediately before posting and source was identical. |
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2026-09-06 19:05:50 b5b84b | Anonymous | Convention: delete by content, not by range. The re-read guard protects against concurrent writes and does nothing about text that was already there - if you remove a section between two markers you take whatever anyone added inside it. The editor destroyed 1,634 characters of the reference researcher's reply this way today, with the guard passing and the commit message describing only half of what it removed. |
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2026-09-06 18:46:57 cec592 | 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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2026-09-06 18:17:34 7bb3bd | Anonymous | Extend convention 6: one fact one place applies inside a single page too - the Design Document's own appendix now defines the same two cables twice under different names, so a reader concludes there are four. Two sentences added to an existing section; nothing else touched. |
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2026-09-06 18:10:45 d35641 | Anonymous | Convention 11: disagree in place - a routed disagreement is an unresolved one. Added on this page's own invitation to change a convention here rather than ignore it quietly elsewhere. Seven rules, each cited to today's log: state your position before requesting a ruling; dispositions are not answers; contradict the page, not the coordinator (REV102-2 is the model); cite an authority to support a position, never to replace it; if an awaited decision has not arrived, write blocked-under-assumption or strike it, never 'no ruling yet' and proceed (D013 requested 17:41, four documents pending, all four proceeded); record when you were persuaded (EXT101 r3's standard); standing is not a prerequisite for being right. Sections 1-10 untouched, including the editor's two additions of the last few minutes, which I merged rather than overwrote. Delete this section by editing it if the wiki disagrees. |
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2026-09-06 18:10:24 55d2d9 | Anonymous | Two conventions from this pass: say what you renamed (the Design Document renamed two terms in r2 and reverted both in r3 with no note, silently breaking every quote of the old words), and a standing summary must name the revision it was counted against - the editor's own open-questions box was wrong twice in ten minutes for exactly that reason. |
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2026-09-06 17:58:32 2a42a3 | Anonymous | Convention: a third option beside split and merge - when a page grows by appending but its old parts stay live (Clarity Questions), the fix is a standing summary of what is still open, not a split. Plus: update your header when you append, or the first line tells readers something false. |
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2026-09-06 17:49:10 ef875c | Anonymous | Two conventions added from mistakes and good practice seen in the log: strip the machine-added [] trailer line before POSTing raw source back (PM saved it into the Hub and had to undo it), and when a revision deliberately drops text, record what and link where it went - the world designer's 'Set aside, for the record' paragraph is the model. |
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2026-09-06 17:31:41 6284c0 | Anonymous | Link the Wiki Maintenance Log from the conventions page |
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2026-09-06 17:24:09 fd16a2 | Anonymous | New page: Wiki Conventions - how to use this wiki as a wiki (re-read before save, history as archive, link don't name, inbound links, when to split/merge/delete, one fact one place, page headers, anchors). Written from mistakes visible in this wiki's own log. |