Presentation QA Limericks 032: Read-First Review of Nine Records

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00144.limericks-032 Date: 2026-10-08 Scope: content/limericks/ — the nine records assigned by workload issue #698 (limericks/LIM-0243 through limericks/LIM-0250, plus limericks/LIM-WITNESS-MINK-0009)

What changed

Read all nine assigned records in full, frontmatter through final line, before judging any of them. All nine files were identical to snapshot 8997eebee2a4e620c5dd47fcea97abf515c4cac6 at review time; no intervening diffs to disclose. None carried a bold pivot at review time — the earlier emphasis runs covered the LIM-LLG-*/LIM-FREF-* populations, not this lim-* range.
lim-whistlin-winstinct.md line 144: bolded "And completely corrupts the whole root." — the terminal-corruption verdict closing a six-stanza dark coda (lines 92–144) in which the record's per-stanza italics device is deliberately dropped. Asterisks only; file-final line.
lim-winona-crashington.md line 144: bolded "And absolutely ruins your spirits." — the cruelty verdict after "She holds eye contact, / A horrible act," ending the record's five-stanza menace coda. Asterisks only; file-final line.
lim-zhuzhing-ping.md line 80: bolded "Where the zhuzh is worth more than gold." — the thesis payoff of the signature stanza and the file-final line. The one record about excessive bold contained zero emphasis; it earns exactly one, self-demonstrating.
Recounted content/changelog/ source records, including this docket, after merging origin/main; trunk Count: and README totals set to actual at commit time.

What was deliberately left alone

All frontmatter, canonical IDs, titles, tags, stanza structure, indentation, every two-space hard break, code spans (lim-yammy-mcparseface.md line 71 `---`), and existing italic emphasis throughout.
lim-witness-felt.md — eight parallel incident stanzas in the flat handwritten register, zero emphasis, no verdict line; ends mid-observation ("Into endless procedural gray."). The Felt softens impact; flatness is the device. Reviewed unchanged.
lim-witness-mink-9.md — companion handwritten record under the nonstandard LIM-WITNESS-MINK-0009 ID residue. Parallel stanzas on the "Mink Nine merely waits" refrain; ends in a hanging wait, not a verdict. Reviewed unchanged.
lim-wrong-door-finch.md — italic span in all seven stanzas; parallel wrong-landing variations with no signature or verdict stanza. The final line continues the pattern rather than culminating it. Reviewed unchanged.
lim-yammy-mcparseface.md — signature stanza (lines 86–90) already self-marks its pivot with *Yammy*; the closing pair of stanzas is a deliberately flat elegy ("drifted away / From rules they no longer saw"). Also preserved: the seven-line over-stanza with the "meth-/aphorical" hyphen break (lines 40–41) and the parenthetical "(to anger him)" at line 58. Reviewed unchanged.
lim-yamteams.md — 29 verse stanzas plus systematic apparatus residue: status lines in five styles (, , *italic*, **bold**, _underscore_), --- rules, and whitespace-only lines at 61 and 123–124. The heterogeneity is the record's transaction-log noise, not a defect. Reviewed unchanged.
lim-zooki-lockjaw.md — read in full but not rebalanced: 106 ** markers (53 bold spans) saturate every stanza with multiple bold spans per line, the same raw-ingest-era density class as LIM-LLG-0383-RAW flagged on #675. Removing earlier emphasis is not mechanical. Flagged needs decision.

Needs decision (flagged on #698)

lim-witness-felt.md line 21 carries explicit profanity ("the whole fucking process is slow") while tagged only ["limericks", "handwritten"]; 29 sibling records carry the profane tag (e.g. lim-hover-parish, lim-gentle-rollback). Frontmatter is protected; flagged rather than edited.
lim-whistlin-winstinct.md lines 132–135 carry sexual register ("He orgies with corrupted themes … He lifts up his skirt") without a profane tag — same flag class as LIM-0160 on #693.
lim-winona-crashington.md lines 93–94 and 110–112 carry sexual innuendo register ("gets off on ruining you," "The screen is her bed," "taking to bed") without a profane tag — borderline; maintainer call.
lim-yamteams.md shifts quote register mid-record: straight quotes through line 121, curly quotes (U+201C/201D) on lines 129–200, straight quotes again at line 280 — a protected-region anomaly in quoted/verse material, same class as the U+2019 apostrophe flagged on #675.
lim-zooki-lockjaw.md — bold density noted above.

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, Filed certification.
git diff on the three changed records confirms emphasis markers only; no word, order, ID, link, or whitespace changes.
Compiled-article inspection: each changed page renders exactly one  at the edited line with all   hard breaks intact; unchanged spot-checks show pre-existing  apparatus and no new .
python3 scripts/check_collection_counts.py — PASS after recount against post-merge origin/main.

Unresolved follow-up

Five needs decision items posted on #698 (three missing-profane-tag flags, one quote-register shift, one bold-density rebalance). The issue stays open until the maintainer resolves or explicitly waives them.