Progressive canonization
A page matures through named stages, and its stage is visible on its face.
Nothing arrives finished. A concept is first named — often with nothing behind the name but a link and the conviction that something belongs there. Then it is drafted: a body, provisional, honest about what it does not yet know. Then it is worked, cohered with its neighbours, and its contradictions surfaced. Only then does it become the settled articulation that other pages can lean on — and even then it is current best understanding, open to a better way.
The value of naming those stages is that a reader can weigh a page correctly. Ore is not a draft; a draft is not agreed. Without the marker, every page reads with the same confidence, and confidence is precisely what a half-written page has not earned. With it, a reader can act on what is settled, contribute to what is drafted, and see where the work is missing altogether.
The same gradient runs through the way a thing is built: a schematic understanding before a developed one, a developed one before anything is called complete. Naming the level of maturity is more useful than pretending to a level you have not reached, and it is how a body avoids both paralysis and false authority.
The discipline is therefore not a promotion ladder to climb but a form of honesty. A page moves up when the work has actually been done; a page that stops being true moves down, or out, and the fact that it was once settled is no argument for keeping it.
Also called: Progressive Articulation, Progressive Realization, Maturation Framing Stands on: Everything Is Current Best Understanding · Provenance · The Incipient Link Opens onto: Work In Progress · Disposition Categories · Phase-Gated Architecture · Patterns Pending Articulation · Gaps Not Yet Closed · One canonical home per concept In play: beyond Sources: the Wiki Turn's working decisions, Maturation Framing (draft) · the Pattern Language inventory, epistemic patterns — Progressive Articulation, Progressive Realization (draft) · lionsberg.wiki: The LIØNSBERG Pattern Language Open: the stage names in use are not one set. The concept field marks pages canon-grade, draft, ore, stub and unmarked; the audit ledger uses fold, canonical, reference, archive; the Pattern Language speaks of schematic and developed. A single vocabulary has not been chosen.