Decision tags — What a decision is about, in the order the index shows them. Open, unlike the topics: a decision that needs a word it does not have simply gets one.
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADR-030 | Every practice states its origin, even when it is the primary source | ADR-029 made introduced_by: optional and set a condition for promotion: a pass over the practices should find origins that differ from the primary source often enough for the field to carry information. The pass has run over all 208, and it did not: three differ, 205 do not. The field is required anyway, for a reason that condition did not test — an absent field was ambiguous between “the origin is the primary source” and “nobody checked”, and those are different claims. Every practice now asserts an origin, which is a thing a reader can find wrong. Rejected: requiring it only where a practice cites several sources, which leaves the ambiguity exactly where an unexamined source[0] is most likely wrong. | Active — Amended by ADR-053, which lets a practice leave introduced_by: [] on purpose, with a comment saying what was searched. The rule that every practice states its origin stands. Its one-year test is running ahead: practices whose origin differs from source[0] went from 3 to about 57. |
| ADR-053 | A practice may state that it has no identifiable origin, by leaving introduced_by empty | ADR-030 made introduced_by: required because an absent field was ambiguous between “the origin is the primary source” and “nobody checked”. A third case has arrived that neither reading covers: the record looked, and no document states the recommendation. required: goes back to false so that case can be written down — but the rule is the opposite of ADR-029’s optionality. Write the field explicitly empty, with a comment saying what was searched, and the emptiness is a claim a reader can falsify by naming the paper. Rejected: filling the field with the primary source anyway, which asserts something false; and inventing a sentinel LIT document, which puts a non-paper in the reading list. | Active |