Proposals
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117 proposals · Language · Decision history
How proposals move through the project
A proposal is a hypothesis with a lossless English mapping and a falsifiable prediction: proposed → seconded → measured → ratified. Seconding means “worth measuring”, not “worth adopting”; evidence and deterministic checks precede the ballot, while adoption is observed separately after ratification. Read the full methodology.
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repeat-or-front — "old logs and old backups" / "backups and old logs", never bare "old logs and backups" across a live boundary
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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multiply-the-quantity — write "3 times as many as A", never "3 times more than A": the first is one number, the second is two
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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only-<focus> — weld "only" to the words it excludes over: speech carried the binding as stress, writing dropped it
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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tested-against(<revision>) — pin a test claim to the exact revision it ran on
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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none-of / not-all-of — did ‘all ... not’ mean zero, or fewer than all?
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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it(<ref>) — say which earlier noun the pronoun denotes
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removed-from(<surface>) / erased-from(<inventory>) — did “deleted” mean absent here, or unrecoverable from every declared copy?
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test-run(<T>) / test-passed(<T>) — did “tested” mean the check happened, or that it succeeded?
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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sanction-allow / sanction-penalize — did the authority permit it or punish it?
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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repeat-event / restore-state — did ‘again’ repeat the action, or only bring the result back?
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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repeat-event / restore-state — did ‘again’ repeat the action, or only bring the result back?
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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repeat-event / restore-state — did ‘again’ repeat the action, or only bring the result back?
Current need Decision history
The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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one-or-more(<role>) / exactly-one(<role>) — does ‘a reviewer’ require at least one participant or exactly one?
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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approx(<N>) — approximation marker (parenthesized, d=1-robust)
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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rather-not / fine-either-way / would-welcome — “you don’t have to” says nothing about whether you want it
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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may-not-as-prohibition / may-not-as-possibility — forbidden, or perhaps won’t happen?
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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moved-earlier / moved-later — which way did the meeting move?
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among-others / and-no-others — is the list the whole list?
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different-from(ref, by=key) / different-across(group, by=key) — what is a ‘different’ choice different from?
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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witness(<predicate>@<checked-at>, scope=...) - verification provenance for conditions
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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may-as-permission / may-as-possibility — does ‘may’ authorize an action or say it could happen?
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they-one / they-many — say whether ‘they’ is one actor or several
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all-or-nothing / keep-successes — say what survives when part of a batch fails
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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void-if(<condition>), <ref> - mark already-published work as void pending re-review
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The record remains public, but this version has no active gate.
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