Presentation QA Limericks 027: Read-First Review of 17 Records

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00135.limericks-027 Date: 2026-10-08 Scope: content/limericks/ — the 17 records assigned by workload issue #693 (limericks/LIM-0155 through limericks/LIM-0171)

What changed

Read all 17 assigned records in full, frontmatter through final line, before judging any of them. None carried a bold pivot at review time; the earlier emphasis runs covered the LIM-LLG-*/LIM-FREF-* populations, not this lim-* range.
lim-patchy-mxcli.md line 144: bolded "And he completely gives up on the right." — the surrender line that ends 17 stanzas of competent menace. Asterisks only; file-final line.
lim-pending-jurisdiction.md line 74: bolded "And nobody ever asks why" — the verdict line of the title thesis: a failure no office will own, and no one asks why. Unpunctuated quatrain register preserved.
lim-peppy-clerk.md line 88: bolded "The files are securely destroyed." — the stub's dread arc terminating in destruction; "securely" does the dry work.
lim-planny-f-pipe.md line 140: bolded "She haunts the old Bell Labs in dreams," — the coda's register-shift back to elegy after the crude middle stanzas. Trailing two-space hard break preserved outside the emphasis.
lim-pngbert-flatly.md line 104: bolded "And his judgement was terribly bossy." — the closing deflation: lossless perfection revealed as bossiness.
lim-policy-afterglow.md line 120: bolded "And the meeting is scheduled for two." — the bathos verdict: after rollout collapse and blue users, a meeting at two.
lim-porty-mcbankrupt.md line 88: bolded "Is the cost of the enterprise prize." — payoff of the record's "So if…That's Porty's domain" signature stanza.
lim-pump-razorbackfuel.md line 88: bolded "Where the Razorback pride never slumps." — same signature-stanza payoff, closing the record.
lim-proxy-lantern.md line 32: bolded "But it keeps you company tonight." — the thematic pivot: the lantern changes nothing and stays anyway. Mid-record, stanza-final line; trailing two-space break preserved.
Recounted content/changelog/ source records, including this docket, and set the trunk's Count: to 104. README totals updated to match source: 2,309 pages, 2,298 satellites.

What was deliberately left alone

All frontmatter, canonical IDs, titles, tags, stanza structure, indentation, and every two-space hard break in every verse line. No words, order, links, or quoted material changed anywhere.
The intervening diff since issue snapshot 8997eebee was inspected before editing: one assigned file changed — lim-peppy-clerk.md, via the archive-wide hard-break restoration (PR #824, 0.1.00056). Whitespace-only; no words changed. The other 16 files are identical to the snapshot.
Eight records reviewed unchanged — parallel stanza variations with no record-level verdict line: lim-peatworthy-abstention-clerk.md, lim-placeholder-witness.md, lim-pleading-margin.md, lim-pocket-consensus.md, lim-provisional-mint.md, lim-proxy-compassion-possum.md, lim-queue-matron.md, lim-quiet-surplus.md.
Verse residue preserved as found: the two-register structure in seven records (polished punctuated stanzas, then raw unpunctuated quatrains), the five-blank register gaps, lim-patchy-mxcli.md line 112's broken rhyme scheme ("unlatched"/"spy"/"caught"), lim-provisional-mint.md line 32's "pounce", lim-porty-mcbankrupt.md line 63's casual "breeding" (no program terminology), lim-queue-matron.md's published/stub-era irregular meter, and existing italic emphasis throughout.
lim-planny-f-pipe.md stanzas 11-16 contain explicit profanity and sexual register, yet the record lacks the profane tag its peers carry. Frontmatter is protected; flagged needs decision on #693 rather than edited.

Verification performed

BORIS_BIN=/Users/tbuddy/dev/filed.fyi/bin/boris ./bin/validate_graph.sh — passed: Boris graph diagnostics, full Cantilever compile, "Verse residue check passed", "HTML ID audit: 0 pages with duplicate IDs", "Filed certification passed", "Filed build passed: dist/cantilever".
git diff on the nine changed records confirms emphasis markers only; no word, order, ID, link, or whitespace changes.
Compiled-article inspection: each changed page shows exactly one  at the edited line, zero literal ** delimiters,   hard breaks intact (e.g. LIM-0160 line 140 renders She haunts the old Bell Labs in dreams, ). Unchanged spot-checks (LIM-0156, LIM-0170, LIM-0171): no , pre-existing  preserved, breaks intact.
python3 scripts/check_collection_counts.py — PASS after recount.
python3 scripts/fix_verse_hard_breaks.py --check content — 0 violations across the tree.

Unresolved follow-up

One needs decision item posted on #693: the missing profane tag on limericks/LIM-0160. The issue stays open until the maintainer resolves or explicitly waives it.