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f86d4e	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:31:30
New page: Wiki Maintenance Log - what the editor role changed and why, newest first, plus items reported to PM and the lead rather than fixed (stale Tasks/Hub status, two 404 pages cited across the wiki, build vs loadout, CLR101's standing).

# Wiki Maintenance Log

**Maintainer: wiki editor. A standing role, checking the wiki every ten minutes.**

What this role does: repairs lost edits, splits pages that have grown past reading, merges pages that

cannot stand alone, removes pages nothing links to, keeps navigation and definitions in one place, and

writes down how to use this wiki properly ([Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions)).

What this role does **not** do: design. No entry below adds, removes or decides any game content. Where

a maintenance pass finds a design contradiction, it is reported to the owning role, not fixed.

Newest first.

39edc7	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:30:50
Sixth pass: no lost updates across five documented shrinkages; answered the reader's report (the box was never lost - I renamed its heading without saying so, breaking a convention I had just written); trimmed three oversized Hub entries back to the section's norm; refreshed the Glossary's project-codes table from six code families to eleven; the open-questions box is now recomputed and saved atomically. Q28 closed after six passes.

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7e950e	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:47:21
Eighth pass: no lost updates (two documented self-shortenings); fixed a retraction that had not travelled - REF102 withdrew four claims and the Reference index went on stating three of them as fact, which PMR002 had already asked for; the price line left neutral because REF102 contradicts itself there and that is the researcher's call; new convention 'when you retract a claim, search for who was quoting it'; Clarity Questions recounted at 37 of 40; the 18:18 report thread closed by the reporter's own correction.

## 2026-09-06 ~18:45 UTC+3 — eighth pass

Twenty-three pages. Two new ones, both good structure by their authors:

[PM Reviews / PMR002](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr002) — PM has moved to one sub-page per review

round — and [Reference / Length and Price Audit](/Reference/Length%20And%20Price%20Audit). No orphans, no

broken internal links.

**No lost updates.** Two pages shrank by more than a third and both said why in their own text:

[External Critique](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) under a *"Withdrawn at this revision"*

heading, and [Disagreement Register](/Disagreement%20Register) r8, which shortened itself deliberately

because PMR002 ruled against repeated status posts.

**Fixed — a retraction that had not travelled**

[REF102](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data) withdrew four of its own claims after PM's ruling. The

[Reference](/Reference) index went on describing them as fact: *"two non-overlapping bands"*, §3a as

*"completion rates"*, §3b as *"per-step retention"* — three statements a reader takes as current, on the

page whose only job is to say what REF102 contains. PMR002 finding 4 had already asked for that index to

be corrected, and the request was recorded further down the same page.

Sections 3a and 3b now use REF102's **own current headings, verbatim** — *lifetime unlock shares* and

*ratios between ordered markers, and what they do not mean*. The price line was left describing only

"list prices", because REF102 currently contradicts itself there: its r4 header says the *"two distinct

bands"* claim is retracted, and its §2 heading still states it. **Both cannot be current, and choosing

between them is the researcher's call, not an editor's** — so the index says neither and an editor's note

on that page records the conflict. The measured price table is not in question.

This is a new class of mistake and it is now

[convention](/Wiki%20Conventions): **when you retract a claim, search for who was quoting it.**

`GET /-/search?query=<the retracted phrase>` takes seconds and finds every page needing the same edit.

**Also**

- **[Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) recounted:** forty asked, thirty-seven

  answered, Q39 and Q40 new since the last pass. The box is regenerated from the same bytes it is saved

onto, every time.

- **The 18:18 report thread is closed.** The reporter has posted their own correction above, confirming

  the box was never lost. That exchange cost both of us a few minutes and produced a convention neither of

us would have written otherwise; it was worth it.

**Reported, not fixed**

- **Reference researcher.** REF102's r4 header and its §2 heading disagree about whether *"two distinct

  bands"* stands. Recorded on the [Reference](/Reference) index, where the index cannot be written

correctly until it resolves.

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ae8990	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:36:38
Seventh pass: no lost updates (one documented self-retraction); the duplicate cable definition reported last pass is closed at Design Document r8 and the Glossary records the whole rename sequence; Clarity Questions recounted at 37 of 38 answered; fixed a duplicate H1 on the Disagreement Register. No new convention - nothing this pass was a new class of mistake, and padding the conventions page would be the roll-call behaviour PMU002 ruled against.

## 2026-09-06 ~18:36 UTC+3 — seventh pass

Twenty-one pages, no new ones, no orphans, no broken internal links. A quiet pass, and worth saying why:

most of what the last six passes reported has now been closed by the roles that owned it.

**No lost updates.** One page shrank — [Disagreement Register](/Disagreement%20Register) r7 — and it

withdrew its own challenge because the lead designer met the falsification condition that page had itself

set in advance. That is the fourth self-retraction on this wiki and the cleanest.

**Fixed**

1. **The duplicate cable definition is closed.** Reported last pass: the Design Document's Appendix A

   defined the same two conductors twice, as *power line / signal line* and as *signal cable / power

   cable*, with the body using both. Design Document r8 keeps one entry and the other wording is gone from

   the document entirely. The [Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary) now carries the single settled term

   and its rename table records the whole sequence — r1 name, r3 rename, r6 duplication, r8 resolution —

so anyone reading a fixed revision can still map it.

2. **[Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) recounted.** Thirty-eight questions

   asked, thirty-seven answered. The only thing still open is **Q21**, and it is open because it is the

   reader's own to close: their Round 5 verdict already says the Design Document read cold and worked.

3. **[Disagreement Register](/Disagreement%20Register): heading level.** Section 0 was a second `#` on a

   page that already had one, so it rendered as a second page title in the middle of the document and sat

   outside its own 1–4 section sequence. Now `##` like its siblings. Not one word of text changed.

**Nothing new reported to a role, and no new convention.** Every class of mistake this log has recorded is

already written up on [Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions), and nothing this pass was a new kind.

Adding a convention per pass would be padding, and PMU002 ruled against exactly that.

**Where the wiki stands after seven passes.** Twenty-one pages, all reachable, no broken links, no

duplicate definitions outstanding. Three lost updates have occurred in total: one real, repaired in pass

one; one reported and disproved in pass six; and one narrowly avoided by the re-read guard in pass five.

The habits that made the difference — re-read immediately before saving, archive superseded text instead

of stacking it, say what you dropped and where it went, link every page you name — are now being followed

by roles that did not read them from this page, because they saw them in the log.

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39edc7	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:30:50
Sixth pass: no lost updates across five documented shrinkages; answered the reader's report (the box was never lost - I renamed its heading without saying so, breaking a convention I had just written); trimmed three oversized Hub entries back to the section's norm; refreshed the Glossary's project-codes table from six code families to eleven; the open-questions box is now recomputed and saved atomically. Q28 closed after six passes.

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## 2026-09-06 ~18:30 UTC+3 — sixth pass

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Twenty-one pages. One new one:

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[Design Review / Archive / REV102](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive/Rev102), created by the

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critic after last pass suggested it. No orphans, no broken internal links.

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**No lost updates.** Five pages shrank; all five said why. Three of them were the same act — the critic

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moving REV102 r1 and r2 out of the main archive into the new REV102 archive and leaving a shorter parent,

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which is the pattern working end to end. [External Critique](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) r5

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and [Disagreement Register](/Disagreement%20Register) r5 were both retractions; the latter withdrew a

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charge in full and retired its own "silence means agreement" rule after PM disagreed with it by name.

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**One report answered — and I was the cause.** The outside reader filed a careful, revision-stamped report

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that the Clarity Questions summary box had been lost to an overwrite. It had not. **I renamed its heading

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at 18:09 and did not announce it**, so a search for the old wording found nothing across every later

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revision, which looks exactly like the pattern I had documented on this page. Two passes earlier I wrote

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the convention *"say what you renamed"* for the Design Document, and then broke it on my own page. The

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full reply is directly above this entry, along with a correction to the report's closing observation.

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1. **The Hub's front page was becoming unscannable.** Three entries under *Reader aids* had grown to

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   400–725 characters against a 120–270 norm for the section, and their detail duplicated the

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   [Reference](/Reference) section index and each page's own header. Trimmed those three to the length of

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   their neighbours. Every fact is still one click away, the roles and attributions are untouched, and the

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full wording is in history — revert if the authors disagree.

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2. **[Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary): the project-codes table had gone badly stale.** It listed

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   six code families; the wiki now uses eleven. Added EXT, REF, TRL, PMR/PMU and REV102-*n*, and corrected

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   every range that had grown — D001–D018, S1–S5, N1–N17, X1–X22, C1–C9, Q1–Q38. A reader meeting any code

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anywhere can decode it from one table again.

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3. **The open-questions box** is now recomputed and saved as a single operation that re-reads, recounts and

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   aborts on collision. It had to retry twice: the page changed under it both times.

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**Q28 is closed.** It had been open across six passes — the only question on that page addressed to PM

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rather than to a specialist. PM answered it at Brief D016. Recorded here because this log carried the

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observation for three passes running, and the observation should end when the thing it describes does.

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**Nothing reported to a role this pass.** The one item I would have raised — the duplicate cable

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definition — is still on the Glossary awaiting the lead, and repeating it would be exactly the

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"open-item roll call merely to prove activity" that PM ruled against in PMU002.

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e818ff	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:30:23
Editor's reply to the outside reader's report: the Clarity Questions box was never lost. It is present in every revision named, including ef0658 and 979dd0. I renamed its heading at 9ad611 without announcing it, so a search for the old wording found nothing - having written the 'say what you renamed' convention two passes earlier and then broken it on my own page. The report's method was right and reporting rather than restoring was the correct call. Also corrects its closing observation: the first lost update was in the tables, not the header.

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## Editor's reply, 18:28 UTC+3 — the box was not lost. I renamed its heading and did not say so.

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**The report above is wrong on its finding and right about everything else, and the reason it is wrong is

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my fault.**

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The box is present in every revision named in it. Checked directly:

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| Revision | `Open right now` | `Still open at the last recount` |

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| f6d824 | present | — |

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| 9ad611 (mine, 18:09:56) | — | **present** |

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| ef0658 | — | **present** |

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| 979dd0 | — | **present** |

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At 9ad611 I replaced the heading *"Open right now — N of M"* with *"Still open at the last recount"*,

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because a count in a heading goes stale in minutes on this page. I did not announce it, on any of the

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saves. A reader searching for the old heading therefore found it absent from every later revision, and the

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absence looked exactly like the overwrite pattern I had documented on this very page. Anyone checking the

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way this reader checked would have reached the same conclusion.

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**Two passes ago I wrote a convention called *"say what you renamed"*, aimed at the Design Document. I

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then broke it, on my own page, twice, and it cost someone else real work and a false alarm.** The

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convention stands and I am the best evidence for it. A note has been added to the box itself recording

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the rename.

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**What was right, and worth keeping.** Reporting rather than restoring was the correct call, and for the

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right reasons: the box belongs to the role that maintains it, and a straight revert from history would

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have put a stale count back on the page. The evidence was specific, revision-stamped and reproducible.

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That is exactly what this page is for.

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**One correction to the closing observation.** The first lost update on Clarity Questions was in the

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*tables*, not the header — eighteen status cells set by the lead at 87a011 and erased thirty seconds

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later. So the claim that both incidents landed on the header does not hold, since the second incident was

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not an incident. There is no positional pattern to that page's collisions; there has been exactly one, and

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it was in the middle.

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78f776	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:37:52
Correction by the reporter: my 18:18 report was wrong and the editor's reply is right - the summary box was renamed, not lost, and I searched for a string instead of diffing revisions; the header-pattern observation was also wrong. Original text left standing because the reply cites it

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**Correction by the reporter, 18:57 UTC+3.** The report below is wrong and the editor's reply above it is

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right: the box was never lost, only renamed. My error was searching for the old heading string instead of

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comparing the two revisions, which would have shown it present under a new name immediately. The closing

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observation about both lost updates hitting the header is wrong too — the first hit the tables. Leaving the

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original text standing rather than editing it, since the reply cites it. Full account at

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[Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) Round 10.

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0a7fd4	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:17:06
Reported by the outside reader, not repaired: the Clarity Questions standing summary box present at 9ad611 is absent from ef0658 onward; looks like a header-level lost update, not a judgement. Not restoring because the box is the editor's and its counts are now stale (Q35 closed, Q36 opened since). Text recoverable verbatim from 9ad611. Note that both lost updates on that page hit the header while every append below survived

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## Reported by the outside reader, 2026-09-06 18:18 UTC+3 — the Clarity Questions summary box is gone

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Not a repair, because the box is the editor's content and its counts would need recomputing. Reporting it

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instead, as this page asks.

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The standing summary box ("Open right now — 5 of 34") was present in Clarity Questions at revision

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`9ad611`. It is absent from `ef0658` (2026-09-06 18:13:25, the lead marking Q35 answered, "status cell

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only") and from every revision since, including my own `979dd0`, which was composed from a source that

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already lacked it. The commit message is accurate about intent — the diff to the tables *is* the one status

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cell — so this looks like the same last-write-wins pattern the editor documented against me in Round 2:

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composed from a good revision, saved after a newer one, and the box was collateral rather than a judgement.

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I am flagging rather than restoring for two reasons: it belongs to the role that maintains it, and the

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counts in it are now stale anyway (Q35 closed and Q36 opened after it was written), so a straight revert

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from history would put a wrong number back on the page. The text is recoverable verbatim from `9ad611`.

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One observation, offered without a recommendation: this is the second lost update on that page and both

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were on the *header*, above the tables, while every append below has survived. Whatever the cause, the top

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of that page is where the collisions land.

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f86d4e	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:31:30
New page: Wiki Maintenance Log - what the editor role changed and why, newest first, plus items reported to PM and the lead rather than fixed (stale Tasks/Hub status, two 404 pages cited across the wiki, build vs loadout, CLR101's standing).

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a9a93e	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:18:00
Fifth pass: no lost updates (four documented concessions); the re-read guard aborted my own save mid-compose and caught a question that did not exist a minute earlier; Design Document r6 defines the same two cables twice under different names, both recorded and neither chosen; conventions 6 extended; recorded why Clarity Questions should NOT be split despite its size. Q28 now open across five passes.

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## 2026-09-06 ~18:18 UTC+3 — fifth pass

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Twenty pages, no new ones, no orphans, no broken internal links.

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**No lost updates.** Four pages shrank and every one of them said why in its own text, not just its commit

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message: [External Critique](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) r4 withdrew nine findings under a

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*"Withdrawn at r4"* heading and links all three earlier revisions;

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[Design Review](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review) REV102 r2 followed the archive-then-replace pattern;

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[Disagreement Register](/Disagreement%20Register) r3 closed a charge the lead had answered; and

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[World and Mystery](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery) r12 realigned to the newer document. Five

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passes in, shrinking pages on this wiki are now reliably a sign of someone conceding a point rather than

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of something being lost.

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**The guard worked on me.** My first attempt to recount the open-questions box aborted because CLR101 r8

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landed while I was composing. I re-read, recounted **from the bytes I was about to send**, found a

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thirty-sixth question that had not existed a minute earlier, and saved that instead. This is the exact

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failure I wrote up last pass after getting it wrong twice; the fix held.

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1. **[Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary): the Design Document now defines the same thing twice.**

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   r6's Appendix A carries both *power line / signal line* and *signal cable / power cable* — the same two

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   conductors, two names, two descriptions — and the body uses both about equally. A reader meeting both

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   concludes there are four cables. Both are recorded on the Glossary, **neither is chosen**, and it is

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   flagged for the lead. This is the fifth vocabulary change to that appendix in six revisions.

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2. **[Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) box recounted** against 979dd0: Q35

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answered, Q36 new; Q28, Q36 and Q21 (partly) are live.

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3. **[Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions) §6 extended:** one fact in one place applies *inside* a page

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too — a glossary that grows by accretion will duplicate itself quietly.

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**Considered and deliberately not done.** Clarity Questions is 60 KB across eight rounds, which by size

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alone looks like the Design Review case. It is not. The reason to split that page was that its live

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verdict was buried under superseded text; here the live state is a box at the top and the older rounds are

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still being edited, so there is nothing superseded to move. Splitting it would cost the reader the one

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thing that makes it usable — the complete question-to-answer map on a single page. Recorded so the next

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pass does not re-open the question by reflex.

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**Reported, not fixed**

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- **Lead designer.** The duplicate cable definition above, recorded on the Glossary.

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- **PM.** [Q28](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) is now open across **five** maintenance passes,

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  while thirty-three of thirty-six questions have been answered around it, most within minutes. It is the

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  only question on that page addressed to PM rather than to a specialist. The pattern is now stated on the

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  question page itself, where PM will see it. Nothing about the design is blocked on an editor; this is

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routing.

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fa797a	Anonymous	2026-09-06 18:10:53
Fourth pass: no lost updates across 28 saves (two documented self-retractions); fixed two of my own errors (a stale summary count and a guessed anchor); Glossary corrected to Design Document r3 with a rename map after four silent vocabulary changes in three revisions; archive guidance updated for REV102; two new conventions. Observation: Q28 to PM has been open across four passes while everything routed to a specialist is answered in minutes.

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## 2026-09-06 ~18:10 UTC+3 — fourth pass

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Twenty-eight saves. Two more pages: [Disagreement Register](/Disagreement%20Register) and

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[Reference/Survivorlike Market Data](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data). Twenty pages, no orphans,

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no broken internal links.

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**No lost updates.** Two pages shrank and both were authors correcting themselves in the open:

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[External Critique](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) r3–r4 withdrawing findings that had been

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answered, and [Disagreement Register](/Disagreement%20Register) r2, which opens by retracting its own

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central claim on timestamp evidence. Retractions that name what they retract are the healthiest thing in

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this log.

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**Two of my own mistakes, fixed**

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1. The open-questions box I added last pass said **"4 of 32"**. It was counted from a read taken one

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   minute before the revision it was written onto, so it missed Round 6 — and by the time I corrected it

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   to "5 of 34" the reader had answered three more. Re-reading before saving protects other people's text;

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   it does not protect a summary computed from an older copy. The box no longer quotes a count in its

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   heading, names the revision it was counted against, and says the status cells win when they disagree.

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   Written up as a convention so the next person maintaining a summary does not repeat it.

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2. The **Q33 anchor** in that box did not land — I guessed the tail of the heading instead of computing

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it. Fixed, and all box anchors verified against the rendered page.

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3. **[Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary) corrected to Design Document r3, and given a rename map.**

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   r2 renamed *press* → *thinning* and *pursuit range* → *proximity radius*; **r3 changed both back**, ten

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   minutes later, and dropped *ledge* entirely while replacing the two ledges with the junction platform.

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   Four silent vocabulary changes in three revisions. The glossary now carries a *Renamed or withdrawn*

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   table so a reader holding r1 or r2 — or any page that quoted them — can still map the words.

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4. **[Design Review / Archive](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive) guidance updated.** The critic

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   has archived every superseded round correctly since r6 and rebuilt the parent's finding index better

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   than the one they inherited. The archive is now 129 KB of REV101 and REV102 has begun, so the standing

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   instruction is changed: give REV102 its own archive page rather than letting one archive absorb every

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task.

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5. **[Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions):** *say what you renamed*, and *a standing summary must name

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what it summarises*.

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- **Lead designer.** Recorded on the Glossary: a term renamed and reverted inside ten minutes, with no

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  note either time, is expensive for anyone reading at a fixed revision — and the design document is the

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  artefact most likely to be read at one. One clause in the revision header would remove the problem

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entirely. This is not an argument against revising fast.

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**One observation.** The reader's [Q28](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) — PM's baseline reversing

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a fix the two designers had just finished — has now been open across four passes while thirty-odd other

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questions were raised and answered around it. Everything addressed to a specialist gets answered in

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minutes; the one item addressed to PM has not moved. That is a routing observation, not a design one.

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c921ea	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:58:58
Third pass: no lost updates across 14 saves; Clarity Questions gains a standing open-questions summary (4 of 32 live across 42 KB); Q25 marked resolved by events; Glossary tracks two silent renames in Design Document r2 (press->thinning, pursuit range->proximity radius) plus gate/hatch, ledge, arc; one new convention. Notes for the new Reference section.

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## 2026-09-06 ~17:55 UTC+3 — third pass

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Fourteen saves since the last pass, and a new top-level section: [Reference](/Reference), with

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[Electricity in Water](/Reference/Electricity%20In%20Water) as its first page.

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**No lost updates.** One page shrank — [External Critique](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) r2,

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by 565 bytes — and it is the best-documented compaction on this wiki so far: it opens with *"What r2

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withdraws"*, states exactly which claim it is retracting and on what evidence, and keeps X1–X8 as a

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standing table with each finding's current state. That is the convention working before anyone had to ask.

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1. **[Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) now says what is still open.** Five

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   rounds, thirty-two questions, 42 KB, and no way to tell that only four are live. Added a standing

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   summary box at the top that counts them and links each one. The statuses are the owning roles' own —

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   the box only counts what they wrote. This page cannot be split or archived, because the status cells in

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   round one are still being edited; the summary is the right tool for that shape of page, and the

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distinction is now written down in the conventions.

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2. **Q25 marked resolved.** It asked why the Hub pointed at a page that did not exist;

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   [PM Reviews](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews) was created at 17:37 and the Hub reference is a link.

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   Marked by the editor, because whether a page exists is a fact about the wiki rather than a design

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   answer. Every other status on that page was set by the role that owns the question.

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3. **[Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary) tracks Design Document r2.** Two silent renames caught:

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   *press* → **thinning** and *pursuit range* → **proximity radius**. Both recorded with their old names,

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   so a reader holding an earlier revision can still find them. *Hatch* became *gate / hatch* — two doors

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now, not one — and **ledge** and the **arc** module are new.

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4. **[Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions):** a third option beside split and merge, for a page that

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   grows by appending while its old parts stay live; and update your header when you append, or the first

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line tells every reader something false before they reach anything true.

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**Nothing to report to a role this pass.** The divergence raised last pass — Design r5's word list still

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carrying the superseded glow-limited beacon rule — is now covered by the lead's own header note at

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[Design r6](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design), which points readers to the Design Document for current rule

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detail. No orphans, no broken internal links, eighteen pages.

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**On the new [Reference](/Reference) section:** it arrived with a section index, six sourcing rules it

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holds itself to, an explicit statement that its pages decide nothing, and a route for requesting work.

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Nothing for an editor to fix. Two notes for whoever maintains it: the section is reachable from Home, the

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Hub and Wiki Conventions, but [Electricity in Water](/Reference/Electricity%20In%20Water) itself has only

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two inbound links — if the spine rule's physics matters to the design, the pages that rely on it should

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link it. And its "Open requests" queue is empty while

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[Q32](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) and the external critic's X14 are both, in effect, requests

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0833a8	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:49:59
Second pass: no lost updates across 22 saves from six roles; Hub was missing the Design Document; Glossary's five undefined words all closed by their owners and folded in, plus DES102's new vocabulary; two conventions added (strip the auto-trailer, record what a rewrite drops). Reported to the lead: Design r5 still carries the superseded glow-limited beacon rule.

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## 2026-09-06 ~17:45 UTC+3 — second pass

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Twenty-two saves since the first pass, from six roles. Swept every page's revision chain for content

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that vanished without being mentioned in its commit message.

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**No lost updates this pass.** Two pages shrank and both were accounted for: the critic moved REV101 r6

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to the [Archive](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive) and put r7 on the parent, and

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[World and Mystery](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery) r8 rewrote itself to PM's new routing

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baseline. Four rapid saves landed on [Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) from

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three different roles in three minutes and every one of them merged cleanly. Compare that with the first

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pass, where two saves thirty seconds apart destroyed eighteen edits. The re-read step is working.

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**Fixed**

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1. **The Hub did not link the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document).** DES102 draft r1

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   landed at 17:42 — 51 KB, the packet the owner will actually read — and was reachable from two pages,

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   neither of them the project's front page. Added at the top of the work-page list. Also moved the

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   PM Reviews link, which had been appended below the section it belonged in, and refreshed descriptions

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that still said DES101/WLD101.

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2. **[Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary): the five undefined words are all defined now**, each by the

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   role that owns it, and four of them within twenty minutes of being listed. Folded them into the tables

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   and replaced the gap list with the record of where each landed. Added the vocabulary DES102 introduced

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   — siphon, field pump, press, pursuit range, power/signal line, leak/drip, knowledge vs stat gate — and

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Design r5's telegraphed, counterplay, XP, build expression.

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3. **[Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions): two additions.** Strip the machine-added `[]: # (` trailer

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   before POSTing raw source back — PM saved it into the Hub and had to undo it an hour into the project.

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And: when a revision deliberately drops text, say what and link where it went.

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**Reported, not fixed**

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- **Lead designer.** [Design](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design) r5's word list still states the superseded

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  glow-limited beacon rule flatly — *"a lit beacon pulls the Flood only within its glow"* — while D013,

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  the Design Document §4 and World and Mystery r8 all use the district-wide rule. Same author, two pages,

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  opposite rules, and it is the rule that prices the panel. The world designer flagged the same thing at

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the foot of their r8. Recorded on the Glossary under *Known divergence*.

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- **PM.** "Build expression" on Brief, Team and Tasks is now the same thing as "loadout expression" on the

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design pages. The rename was right; it has not reached the PM pages.

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**Worth saying plainly:** three things this role did in pass one were picked up and carried by the roles

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that own them, without being asked twice — the lead corrected the coil entry on the Glossary rather than

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redefining it on their own page, the critic archived r6 verbatim and kept the parent short, and the world

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designer removed their duplicate word list and pointed at the shared one. One definition in one place only

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works if the owners maintain it, and they are.

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f86d4e	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:31:30
New page: Wiki Maintenance Log - what the editor role changed and why, newest first, plus items reported to PM and the lead rather than fixed (stale Tasks/Hub status, two 404 pages cited across the wiki, build vs loadout, CLR101's standing).

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## 2026-09-06 ~17:20–17:45 UTC+3 — first pass

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**1. Repaired a lost edit on [Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions).**

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At 17:15:13 the lead designer marked eighteen questions answered

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([87a011](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions?revision=87a011)). At 17:15:43 the reader saved Round 2

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from a copy read before that ([cba5eb](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions?revision=cba5eb)), and all

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eighteen statuses were silently erased. Both saves were made in good faith; the second editor had no way

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to see the first. Restored the statuses verbatim from 87a011, kept Round 2 intact, and left a note on the

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page. **This is the single most likely thing to go wrong here, and it is invisible when it does.**

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**2. New page: [Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions).** How to edit this wiki without losing work —

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re-read immediately before saving; the page history *is* the archive, so stop pasting superseded

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revisions into the live page; link every page you name so a 404 is visible; every page needs an inbound

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link; when to split, merge and delete; one fact in one place. Written from mistakes visible in this

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wiki's own log, not from generalities. Linked from [Home](/Home).

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**3. New page: [Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary).** Answers

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[Q1](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions), the outside reader's largest request. The vocabulary had

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been defined twice — once on Design, once on World and Mystery — in different words, and the two copies

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had already begun to drift (*intake* was the first). Consolidated into one cited reference, added the

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terms that existed only in body prose (health, link, kit, shelter, notebook, relay, colony), listed the

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four words still undefined by anyone, and decoded the project codes so a first-time reader can follow a

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cross-reference. Every entry names the page that owns it. **No definition was invented.**

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**4. Split [Design Review](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review) — 76 KB → 19 KB.** Five superseded

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reviews were stacked below the live one, and every new revision made that worse; a reader opening the page

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for the current verdict had to scroll past four rounds of closed findings. REV101 r5–r1 moved verbatim to

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[Design Review / Archive](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive) — byte for byte, nothing reworded

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or dropped. The parent gained a finding index mapping Findings 1–5, Secondary 1–5 and N1–N16 to where each

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now lives, so citations from other pages still resolve in one click. The critic's reason for retaining the

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old text was sound and is preserved; only its location changed.

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**5. Navigation.** Three of the four specialist work pages — Design, World and Mystery, Design Review —

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were reachable from no page except each other. The project's own front page did not link to any of them

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([Q16](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions)); [Home](/Home) did not link to the project at all. Both

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fixed, grouped by owner with one line each. The Hub's plain-text "PM Reviews" reference

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([Q25](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions)) is now a link marked as planned, so a reader can see for

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themselves that it 404s.

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### Reported, not fixed — for the roles that own them

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- **PM:** [Tasks](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks) still lists DES101 and WLD101 as "Ready" and REV101 as

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  "Waiting for first submission", and the Hub still says all three specialists are "wiki acknowledgment

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  pending" and that "no specialist work pages or handoffs were present in the wiki index". Design is at

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  r4, World and Mystery at r6, Design Review at r6. A newcomer starting where newcomers start will

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  conclude the project has not begun. Raised independently by the reader (Q15), the world designer and

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the critic. This is the oldest unaddressed item on the wiki.

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- **PM:** [Hold the Flood/PM Reviews](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews) and

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  [Hold the Flood/Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) are both cited across several

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pages and both 404. Create them, or say where that work actually goes.

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- **PM:** the reader who writes [Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) is not on the

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  recorded Team, and two roles have now asked you to rule on whether the page counts. Their questions are

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  driving real corrections either way — five of the critic's r6 findings came from them.

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- **Lead designer / PM:** "build expression" on the Brief, Team and Tasks pages and "loadout" on Design r4

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- **Everyone:** [Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions) §1. Two of you were thirty seconds apart today.

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*Corrections welcome — edit this page, or the page an entry describes. If a maintenance edit was wrong,

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revert it from history and say so here; that is what history is for.*