Lint Report — Sources (2026-07-18)

#lint-report

Scope

Health check of the 12 source summary pages in wiki/sources/* (per user request "run a lint on sources"). Cross-page checks (inbound links, contradiction coverage) were run against the whole vault where a source page is one end of the relationship. This is the vault's first lint.

Checks run: raw↔summary coverage · page-type tags · template-section completeness · outbound link validity · inbound linking / orphans · cross-source contradiction coverage · stale/superseded claims · metadata completeness · evidence provenance.

Verdict

The source layer is healthy. No orphans, no broken links, no missing or mismatched tags, complete raw↔summary coverage, and provenance is well-maintained. Five findings, all Low/Info; two were fixed in this pass, three are flagged.

Passing Checks

Coverage is complete and 1:1. 12 raw files in raw/sources/ → 12 summaries in wiki/sources/. No un-ingested raw source; no summary without a backing raw file.
Page-type tags correct. All 12 pages open with #source as the first tag; topical tags follow. No folder/tag mismatch.
Template sections present. All 12 carry Source Metadata, Core Claims, Key Evidence / Details, Connections, Open Questions, and Change Impact on Wiki. (konspekt-aphorisms uses "Core Claims (the aphorisms)" — compliant.)
No broken outbound links. Every [[…]] target in every source page resolves to an existing page.
No orphan sources. Every source has ≥1 inbound link from a content page (concept/entity/comparison/query/overview), plus index/overview catalog links.
Provenance chain intact. The primary→secondary demotion of 2026-06-15-selling-development-services-in-the-ai-era is recorded on the page and reflected in concept-page citations; its resolved open question is struck through, not deleted (history preserved). Primaries carry accurate "provenance role" notes. The konspekt-aphorisms "Indian dev" stereotype is quoted for fidelity with an explicit non-reuse caveat — compliant with the citation policy.

Findings

F1 — Content-marketing-timing contradiction was under-recorded (Low) — ✅ fixed

The new source 2026-07-18-information-is-free-implementation-is-paid makes organic content the primary lead engine from day one — a third, most-aggressive position on content timing. client-acquisition-channels still recorded the split as two-way (Tony vs AB Analytics). Non-negotiable rule #5 requires contradictions be recorded explicitly. Fix: upgraded the Contradictions bullet in client-acquisition-channels to the three-way split, noting the "audience-dependent" escape is weaker here (all three are US SMB coaching sources).

F2 — Missing reciprocal link + inaccurate Change Impact on the LinkedIn template (Low) — ✅ fixed

2026-06-15-linkedin-mail-template's Change Impact claims it is "linked from client-acquisition-channels and sales-discipline," but sales-discipline did not link it — leaving the template inbound-linked from only one content page (its weakest link in the vault). Fix: added the link from sales-discipline ("customize every first touch" → the concrete instance is the template), making the claim true and strengthening the weak link.

F3 — `meta-analysis` is the most weakly inbound-linked source (Low) — flagged

2026-06-15-meta-analysis-selling-dev-in-ai-era is inbound-linked from only overview among content pages (plus index/log). Acceptable for a second-order map that mostly points at the primaries, but it is the least-connected source. Optional future strengthening: cite it from the concept pages whose contradictions it first surfaced (content-timing, team-size).

F4 — Filename date-prefix convention is inconsistent for undated videos (Info) — flagged

Three conventions are in use for the date prefix: ingestion date for the two US anchors (2026-07-17-design…, 2026-07-18-information…), batch date for the June-15 set, and file date for 2026-07-06-sebastian…. Each page documents its own date in metadata, so nothing is misleading — but the naming rule doesn't specify which date to use when a source is undated. Consider codifying: "undated source → use ingestion date." No file renames recommended now (links would churn).

F5 — Corpus remains single-school and unverified (Info) — flagged (standing gap)

The 12th source adds no statistics but also no verification and no dissent: 11 of 12 sources are the same "sell dear / give-value / productize" school; all quantitative claims across the corpus remain attributable-but-unverified (promotional videos). Already tracked in overview and index. The highest-value next ingest is still an adversarial / failure-case source; a warm partial-dissent already exists in sebastian (channels only).

Changes Made This Pass

client-acquisition-channels — content-timing contradiction upgraded to three-way (F1).
sales-discipline — added reciprocal link to 2026-06-15-linkedin-mail-template (F2).

Recommended Next Operations

Ingest an adversarial source (F5) — the one gap that materially changes vault confidence.
A full-wiki lint (this pass covered sources only) — to check concept/entity pages for the same categories, plus high-mention concepts lacking pages (e.g. referrals is a high-value channel with metrics but no dedicated page).
Optional low-priority tidy: F3 (link meta-analysis from concept pages), F4 (codify the date-prefix rule).

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