Presentation QA Mascots 042: Read-First Review of 5 Records

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00212.mascots-042 Date: 2026-10-08 Scope: content/mascots/ — the 5 records assigned by workload issue #769 (504.unanswered-knock.md, 672.map-72-absentia.md, 677.sealward-proxy-9.md, 937.blinko-chompframe.md, 938.vantage-hollow.md)

What changed

Read all five assigned records in full, frontmatter through final line, including haiku and limerick residue sections.
672.map-72-absentia.md line 13: bolded "a confident final sentence" — the record's diagnostic pivot; the functional ghost is detected precisely by that one addition to otherwise untouched files. Asterisks only.
677.sealward-proxy-9.md line 23: bolded "the appearance that authority once passed cleanly through the room" — the definitional turn of the bio (the proxy does not create authority, it preserves its appearance). Asterisks only; trailing space on the line preserved.
937.blinko-chompframe.md lines 11–15: inserted two blank lines so the biography's two run-together source paragraphs and the 🧃 **Likes:** label compile as separate blocks instead of one run-on . Whitespace only.

What was deliberately left alone

504.unanswered-knock.md: reviewed unchanged. The pivot "Nothing came back." (line 20) already stands alone as its own paragraph; the stat block carries bold labels and the first five limericks already bold their rhyme words while the last six do not — existing emphasis residue, preserved.
938.vantage-hollow.md lines 168–196: five middle limericks lack the two-space hard breaks used by the rest of the record's verse and compile run-on (verified: no   in the compiled ), with single-blank stanza separators where surrounding limericks use double blanks. Protected verse layout — flagged needs decision in the PR rather than edited without a maintainer waiver. No other edit earned: the record already carries **Distinction:** and the :::note Archivist's Addendum bold.
937.blinko-chompframe.md lines 33–37 and 42–45: the blockquoted Operational Handbook and Incident Report stat lines carry no hard breaks and merge into single paragraphs inside the quote (verified in compiled HTML). Quoted/documentary material — flagged needs decision, not normalized.
677.sealward-proxy-9.md verse: fully consistent hard breaks throughout — including the second ### Surveillance Visit Completed haiku batch and the split limerick subsections. The doubled ## Haikus / ## Haikus {#haikus-2} headings and headed Role/Function/Tone/Slogan stat layout are this record's own convention, preserved.
938.vantage-hollow.md :::note block (lines 25–31): renders literally as :::note/::: paragraphs — the same residue found in lorelog/DS-404-ALPHA.md and reference/fref-0380-lbkp.md. Existing markup, preserved; whether ::: containers should compile is a collection-level question.
672.map-72-absentia.md lines 11 and 13 [^1] references: no footnote definition exists, but dangling [^1] is a corpus-wide convention across the managed-absence records (lorelog/map-inc-14.md, reference/fref-0150-mapa.md), not a defect.
All frontmatter, canonical IDs, tags, titles, anchors ({#...}), code-fenced verse, list markup, existing emphasis, and every two-space hard break. No trailing-whitespace cleaning anywhere.

Verification performed

git diff 8997eebee2a4e620c5dd47fcea97abf515c4cac6 HEAD on all five assigned paths — no intervening changes since the issue snapshot.
sed -n 'l' / grep whitespace scans of all five files to map which verse lines carry hard breaks before touching anything.
BORIS_BIN=/Users/tbuddy/dev/filed.fyi/bin/boris ./bin/validate_graph.sh — passed after the edits.
Compiled-article inspection of the three edited records' HTML after the build: M-0672.html and M-0677.html show the new  spans; M-0937.html shows the biography split into separate  blocks with the Likes label on its own line. M-0938.html inspected to confirm the flagged run-on rendering and that the :::note residue is untouched.

Unresolved follow-up

The two needs decision items above (938 run-on limerick block; 937 merging blockquote stat lines) await maintainer waiver or a scoped extension of the verse hard-break convention to mascot ## Limerick Log regions and blockquoted stat material — the same open question recorded in 0.1.00065.mascots-001.