Quality marks

A definition should reveal its confidence level.

Marks keep the site honest. They show whether a definition is broadly stable, tied to one vendor, still contested, or waiting for repair. This prevents a useful shorthand from being mistaken for a universal rule.

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Stable enough

The term can be used in plain explanation with a short boundary note.

Vendor-bound

The phrase is meaningful mainly inside one product family, release note, or interface pattern.

Contested

Multiple communities use the term differently, so the definition must name the context first.

Repair needed

The current wording hides a failure mode, overstates capability, or mixes system layers.

Marks are not ratings.

They are handling instructions. A contested definition may still be the best available definition when it names the dispute clearly. A vendor-bound definition can be excellent inside a product note and dangerous in a general explainer. A repair-needed mark is not a rejection; it is a signal that the sentence needs a better edge before it is quoted, indexed, or turned into automated guidance.