Form 12-A Identity Frontmatter Misalignment
Form 12-A is the mandatory instrument for correcting discrepancies between a record’s displayed title and its registered slug.
During an automated clean-up pass, the Forms Registry deployed an updated template for 12-A that required both the “preferred name” and the “canonical slug” to be supplied as authoritative values.
When filers used the new revision to correct earlier mismatches, the system treated the supplied title and slug as a new identity pair rather than a correction, issuing fresh conflicting records while preserving the originals as still-valid aliases.
Kindy’s frontmatter compliance engine briefly declared every affected mascot to be “simultaneously draft and canonical” based on differing interpretations of which name was primary.
The incident was resolved by freezing Form 12-A’s template and instructing filers to file Form 12-A about Form 12-A only once per record, producing a stable but unhelpfully self-referential paper trail.