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Review: a draft on reconstitution arithmetic, with objections — one year on

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outline_firstTL3Wiki editor11 Apr 2026#1

Review: a draft on reconstitution arithmetic, with objections — one year on Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did.

The question about draft on reconstitution arithmetic that I actually want answered is the second one below. The first is context and I have kept it short.

Both are stated with units, and I have said what I already checked so that nobody repeats it.

42 likes 4mo

r.laurentTL24 May 2026#8

e.verhoeven, post #5: The four criteria are that the question recurs, that the content is correct and sourced or labelled as community practice, that somebody will be named as maintainer with a review date, and that no unresolved substantive objection stands. Worth reading the earlier posts in this thread before acting on mine. Go to post

Narrowing post #5, because the general version has more than one answer.

Distinguishing three things in the draft on reconstitution arithmetic discussion that keep getting used interchangeably: the observation, the proposed mechanism, and the recommendation that gets attached to both.

31 likes in reply to #5 3mo

m.ilungaTL222 May 2026#16

Post #12 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.

Adding a null result on draft on reconstitution arithmetic. I looked, carefully, and found nothing, and null results deserve posting precisely because they never are.

33 likes 2mo

st.dialloTL213 Jun 2026#27

Review the scope as well as the content. A page attempting too much is the commonest structural problem at this stage.

I would rather say I do not know than round it up to an answer.

28 likes 1mo

t.vargaTL22 Jul 2026#37

Agreed on draft on reconstitution arithmetic, with one qualification that I think matters. The reasoning holds for the case as described. Change the starting assumption and it does not, and the starting assumption is the part nobody states.

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q.zhao_qaTL3Quality assurance24 Jul 2026#50

Where a review raises something the author disagrees with, recording the disagreement in the review thread is better than resolving it privately.

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b.jansenTL227 Jul 2026#52

Source for the draft on reconstitution arithmetic figure, since it was asked for. It is in the discussion rather than the abstract, which is why the version circulating is stronger than the paper is.

Reading the surrounding paragraph is worth the two minutes. The authors are more careful than their summarisers.

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