evidence-boundary-discipline

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• Evidence boundaries for claims built from reported sources
• When to Use
• 1. Fix the tense to the dateline
• 2. Hold one provenance label across all surfaces
• 3. Every new factual paragraph carries its own citation
• 4. Absence never escalates
• 5. Read the definition before mapping an observation onto it
• 6. Self-check before delivering

Writing or revising a knowledge page, monitor delta, entity/concept section, or delivery table whose claims rest on news reports, press releases, partial legal text, or sources read in an earlier round. A reviewer returned a page or candidate with "this overstates what the source says". For the mechanics of a rejected-candidate round (versioned patches, immutability, numstat reporting), pair this with the project's own revision-candidate procedure. The rule underneath everything here: a page states what a named source said at a dated moment, and never what the world is like now unless a later artifact was actually read. A source writing will be developed in the coming weeks records a plan as of that report. Days later it does not license "still not formed", "not public yet", or "no draft exists". Write: The report of records a pre-session drafting plan (the original uses the future tense); as of this cutoff no text was obtained and the current completion/public state is unknown. A negative that was true when the source wrote it ("no checkable text before the session") is a statement about that moment, not a standing property of the artifact. | Surface | Carries | |---|---| | page b

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