Talk:Template/Doc Calibration Pattern
Calibration Report — Template:New Page Seed/doc — 2026-07-14
- Page: Template:New Page Seed/doc
- Summary: Documentation for Template:New Page Seed — explains contents, usage, and what to remove based on page type. No longer carries its own Admin Page Status block; calibration status is tracked on the template itself.
- Reviewer: Sovereign
- Review Type: Self-Assessment
Summary of Changes
- Removed the live `#cargo_query` status display and the standalone Admin Page Status block that were previously placed on this page.
- Replaced both with a single plain pointer: "Calibration status for this documentation is tracked on Template:New Page Seed, not here."
- This page now contains documentation content only — usage, field guides, warnings, removal-by-page-type guidance — with no calibration metadata of its own.
Reasoning / Rationale
Why the doc page no longer holds a status query or its own Admin Page Status block: the original attempt put a live Cargo query directly on this page to display the template's status without duplicating it. That worked, but it surfaced a real, confirmed problem — the query returned duplicate rows, which turned out to be a genuine Cargo data anomaly (repeated stored rows for the same page, not a rendering bug as first suspected). Rather than carry that risk on two pages (template and doc both running the same query), the query was consolidated onto the template alone, per the newly-formalized Template/Doc Calibration Pattern. The doc page's job is documentation content; the template's job is being the actual, single source of calibration truth. A plain link does the connecting work a live query was doing before, with none of the duplicate-data risk.
Why this isn't "losing" information: nothing about this page's actual calibration status has changed or become less visible — a reader is one click away from the real, current data instead of viewing a locally-duplicated copy of it. Given the two are explicitly "calibrated as one unit," maintaining two separate displays of the same fact was redundant machinery, not redundant safety.
Confidence / Certainty Level
High — this is a direct, tested simplification following a real bug found on the more complex version, not a speculative change.
instrument_grade: Experimental (unchanged)
calibration_rationale: Documentation content itself hasn't materially changed this pass; the structural fix (removing the local query/status block) is what's being reported. instrument_grade for this page's actual content stays tied to the template's own rating, per the "calibrated as one unit" principle — see Template:New Page Seed directly for current status, not this field. review_confidence: Moderate
What This Report Does NOT Claim
This does not claim the underlying duplicate-Cargo-row issue has been resolved — only that this page no longer independently displays it. The fix (Special:CargoTables "Recreate data") remains outstanding, tracked on the template's own report, not duplicated here.
Fields Changed
Removed: live `#cargo_query` block, standalone Admin Page Status block. Added: plain pointer link to Template:New Page Seed for calibration status.
Open Items
- None specific to this page — all open items from this change (duplicate row cleanup, Template: namespace transparency gap) are tracked on Template:New Page Seed's own report, since that's where the actual mechanism now lives, consistent with the "calibrated as one unit" principle this report itself is applying.