A.6.3.CSC:4.1 - Ordinary mini-card
Use this optional six-row aid when the receiving use needs an inspectable comparison. For ordinary use, keep only the smallest comparison that makes the shorter candidate useful and honest; its values may remain in the source, candidate, and surrounding text.
| Row | Question |
|---|---|
| Source passage or account | What exact passage, account, or directly linked source is being shortened? |
| Shorter candidate | What shorter wording or account is offered now? |
| Present use and must-retain distinctions | Who will use it for what, and which distinctions, qualifiers, alternatives, uncertainty, or scope must survive for that use? |
| Loss or unsupported addition | What detail, qualifier, alternative, uncertainty, scope, evidence path, relation, recoverability, or representation factor was omitted, weakened, aggregated, or redacted; and what, if anything, did the candidate add or strengthen beyond what the source supports—for example a number, classification, temporal statement, approval status, causal claim, modal claim, or authority claim? |
| Non-admissible downstream use | What downstream claim, effect, work, or reliance use is not admissible from this candidate alone? |
| Return trigger | What demand forces comparison with the source, re-expansion, or use of the pattern that supplies the needed stronger claim? |
When a card is useful, keep it inline with the adjacent or directly linked source and candidate. The comparison makes only the named local use admissible and cannot be detached as evidence, authority, a bridge, a work plan, or a settled exact CSC account.
If no required distinction was lost, no claim was added or strengthened beyond what the source licenses, the non-use boundary is clear, and the return remains cheap, stop. Do not create another durable coarsening object or an identity dossier solely for local orientation. If the candidate must travel independently or the exact content identity changes the receiving use, carry the already recovered source, candidate, use, loss, and return into the exact branch instead of starting a second account.