A revision dispute resolved on the topic rather than in the history Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did.
Proposing that revision dispute resolved deserves a maintained page rather than a recurring topic, and drafting the skeleton here so that the argument about scope happens before the writing rather than after.
What I think belongs on it, what does not, and the three claims that would need a citation each.
The opening post describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.
Support the scoping edit. A number in a maintained document gets quoted without its context roughly forever, so the context has to be inside the sentence rather than in the paragraph above it.
Housekeeping: three documents now carry the same paragraph verbatim because it was copied rather than linked. One of them should hold it and the other two should point at it.
Where I have landed on revision dispute resolved, having got it wrong once in public: the direction is clear, the magnitude is not, and anyone quoting a precise magnitude has borrowed it from somewhere that did not measure it.
Post #5 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
Proposing an edit rather than making one, because it changes a number. The figure in the third paragraph is right for the licensed formulation and is being read as general. I would add four words scoping it.
Happy to be the one who is wrong here if it settles the question.
Repointed, and thank you. That failure mode is common enough after a promotion that it should probably be part of the promotion checklist rather than something we catch by reading.
Noting that I have skin in this question and have tried to discount for it.
I read post #5 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.
Maintenance note. This document is due for review and the maintainer has asked for a second reader before the date rather than after it. If you use this page regularly, this is the moment your objection is cheapest to act on.
Revision disputes: if you disagree with an edit a maintainer made, discussing it here invites resolution rather than conflict.
Agreed. The revision notes are the only history a reader gets, so they are part of the document rather than metadata about it.
If that reads as pedantic, it is, and it has saved me twice.
Picking up post #11: that is the part I would want checked first.
Careful with the language on revision dispute resolved. "Not detected" and "not present" are different findings and the first is a statement about the method.
Question for the editors: what is the standard for adding a citation to a claim that is community practice rather than published? At the moment those sentences are unmarked and read as though they were sourced.
Flagging a stale cross-reference. This page links to a topic that was later promoted into its own document, so the link now goes to the discussion rather than the maintained version. Worth repointing.
Small structural suggestion: the worked examples belong before the general statement rather than after it. Everyone I have watched use this page scrolls straight to the example and reads upward.
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