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== Calibration Report - 2026-07-13 ==

'''Reviewer:''' Sovereign
'''Review Type:''' Self-Assessment

=== Summary of Changes ===
* Added the Calibration Dependencies section, listing Template:Calibration Template, Reality Override Game, Template:Admin Page Status/doc, and Calibration Dependencies: Standards and Process as visible references.
* Explicitly addressed and resolved the question of whether scaffolding templates (GameModule, Admin Page Status) count as dependencies: '''they do not'''. They are structural infrastructure used by every page on the wiki, not an intellectual dependency specific to this page's reasoning — including them would apply to literally every page and provide no discriminating information for ripple-search prioritization. This distinction is now stated directly on the page itself.
* Populated `depends_on` (hidden, load-bearing subset) with only 2 of the 4 visible dependencies — Calibration Template (guidance is materially incomplete without it) and Calibration Dependencies: Standards and Process (a philosophy change there would likely require revisiting this page). Reality Override Game and Admin Page Status/doc are used only as illustrative examples in the comparison table and don't rise to load-bearing.
* Filled previously-missing `calibration_rationale` and `review_confidence` fields.

=== instrument_grade: Development ===
'''calibration_rationale:''' Decision procedure is clear and has been directly self-applied to both this page and its sibling, Calibration Dependencies: Standards and Process — both correctly classify as Talk-only under the procedure's own logic, which is a small but real internal consistency check. Not yet tested by an independent reviewer applying the decision procedure to a page they didn't already have an intuition about.
'''review_confidence:''' Moderate

=== Validation: Moderate ===
Self-applied consistently across two related pages so far. Not yet validated by a reviewer other than the primary contributor, and not yet stress-tested on an ambiguous edge case where the Yes/No decision isn't obvious.

=== Fields Changed ===
Added: Calibration Dependencies section
calibration_rationale: (blank) → filled
review_confidence: (blank) → Moderate
depends_on: None → Template:Calibration Template; Calibration Dependencies: Standards and Process
Last Updated (GameModule infobox): 2026-07-12 → 2026-07-13

=== Open Items ===
* Test the decision procedure on a genuinely ambiguous page — everything classified so far has had an intuitively obvious answer.
* Confirm whether other Talk-only pages built tonight also correctly omit GameModule/Admin Page Status from their dependency sections, now that the distinction is explicit — worth a quick sweep.

'''See the Game. Refuse the Game. Build Better.'''

[[User:Sovereign|Sovereign]] ([[User talk:Sovereign|talk]]) 10:44, 13 July 2026 (EDT)