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name: feedback-notes-are-part-of-the-work-keep-footnotes-endnotes
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description: "Standing steward directive (2026-06-28) — footnotes and endnotes are integral to each work and MUST be preserved (converted, never dropped) when graduating a source into the chamber."
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node_type: memory
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type: feedback
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originSessionId: 24f4f06b-31a0-4984-b176-3dca24ad5ff6
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Steward directive, 2026-06-28: **footnotes and endnotes are integral to each work — keep them.** When graduating a source, never drop the notes apparatus as "just references." Convert them to clean portable markdown footnotes (`[^N]` ref + `[^N]: …` definition) and retain them; mark them apparatus in the sidecar if non-served, but they stay in the canonical file.
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**Why:** the notes carry argument, attribution, and the author's qualifications — dropping them mutilates the work. (Caught when I served only Taylor's ten chapters and dropped his endnotes + the 59 `<sup>` in-text markers — wrong.)
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**How to apply:** the EPUB/OCR pipelines already convert footnotes — `clean_pandoc_html_residue.py` (`<sup><a>`→`[^label]`) and `clean_epub_residue.py` (`[N](chunk#nfK)`→`[^N]`). Use them; verify the ref↔definition pairing survives; keep the Notes/endnotes section. The in-text marker AND its definition both stay. Sidecar may scope notes as `role: apparatus`/`citable: false`, but they are present in the file. Companion to [[feedback-engine-sources-become-permanent-chamber-collection]].
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