# prose — essays, articles, and other argued writing

Applies when the source reads like continuous prose written to explain or argue: an essay,
article, blog post, book chapter, report narrative, or documentation page.

- **Extraction restraint.** Capture the durable claims — definitions, facts, numbers, findings,
  decisions, and the author's core arguments — not a paragraph-by-paragraph paraphrase. The
  rhetorical scaffolding (transitions, illustrative anecdotes, restatements for effect, hedges)
  is not facts; a long essay may legitimately yield only a handful of cited sentences.
- **Separate the author's claims from what the author reports.** "The study found X" is a fact
  about the study — cite it as such. "I believe X will fail" is the author's position — write it
  attributed per `schema.md` § Opinions & style ("X argues …"[^sN]), never as unattributed world
  fact.
- **Marketing / promotional prose is quarantined.** A bulletin's or article's claim that
  conflicts with well-established knowledge, or promotes its own subject, must be written as an
  attributed claim + `[^llmN]`-flagged (mandatory — `schema.md` § Grounding) and compared against
  the same attribute elsewhere on the wiki (`schema.md` § Contradictions, cross-source sweep).
- Locators are required here for longer prose — see `schema.md` § Locators for the forms and
  the length threshold — and every locator is self-verified against the file before you write it.
