# Editor Report

**Generated:** 2026-05-06
**Files reviewed:** 3 refreshed pages (full 4-pass) + 5 WIP pages (terminology pass only)
**Changes made:** 0
  - BLOCKING: 0
  - SUGGESTION: 1
  - NITPICK: 0

## Summary

The three refreshed pages for the v0.8.0 Phase 62 close-out (`transactional-ddl-and-limitations.rst`, `alter-semantic-view.rst`, `drop-semantic-view.rst`) passed all four editor passes without requiring edits. Terminology is consistent with the rest of the docs tree, the explanation page now reads cleanly as explanation-shaped content (no Diataxis blur), prose matches the established `warm-businesslike` tone with no AI tells warranting humanizer rewrites, and every `:ref:` target resolves. One SUGGESTION is recorded against the WIP `explanation/index.rst` for the project author to review after this session.

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## docs/explanation/transactional-ddl-and-limitations.rst

**Pass 1 (Terminology):** No drift. "DuckDB", "PEG parser", `CREATE SEMANTIC VIEW`, `BEGIN`/`COMMIT`/`ROLLBACK`, "semantic view" (lowercase noun) all match the canonical forms in `.doc-writer/terminology.yaml` and the rest of `docs/`.

**Pass 2 (Diataxis -- Explanation):** Page is now appropriately tighter after removal of the error-formatting and multi-DB LRU sections. Stays in explanation mode (concepts, why, when). The brief Python try/except snippet in the CREATE-IF-NOT-EXISTS race section and the two-line PEG-parser restoration snippet are illustrative of the concepts under discussion, not procedural how-to. No structural blur.

**Pass 3 (Humanizer):** Clean against the warm-businesslike voice. No promotional language, no inflated symbolism, no AI vocabulary clusters, no copula avoidance, no superficial -ing phrases, no chatbot artifacts. Em dashes used in the new prose (lines 14, 46, 70, 90, 115) match the established surrounding-prose style in untouched paragraphs of this file -- treated as project voice, not AI overuse.

**Pass 4 (Cross-references):** All `:ref:` targets in the See also block (lines 162-165) resolve:

| Reference | Target file:line |
|-----------|-----------------|
| `:ref:\`ref-create-semantic-view\`` | `docs/reference/create-semantic-view.rst:4` |
| `:ref:\`ref-drop-semantic-view\`` | `docs/reference/drop-semantic-view.rst:4` |
| `:ref:\`ref-alter-semantic-view\`` | `docs/reference/alter-semantic-view.rst:4` |
| `:ref:\`ref-error-messages\`` | `docs/reference/error-messages.rst:5` |

The two anchors removed by the substantive edit (`_explanation-txn-ddl-error-formatting`, `_explanation-txn-ddl-multi-db`) are not referenced by the inbound `:ref:` links found across the touched pages; the surviving anchors (`_explanation-txn-ddl-write-visibility`, `_explanation-txn-ddl-create-race`) remain and are correctly targeted by `create-semantic-view.rst:115`, `describe-semantic-view.rst:33`, `show-semantic-views.rst:42`, and the WIP `yaml-definitions.rst:99`.

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## docs/reference/alter-semantic-view.rst

**Pass 1 (Terminology):** No drift.

**Pass 2 (Diataxis -- Reference):** Stays in reference shape. The edited line 52 sits inside an existing `.. note::` block whose surrounding content (Statement Variants, Parameters, Output Columns, Examples) is unchanged.

**Pass 3 (Humanizer):** Single-token edit ("Since v0.8.1" -> "Since v0.8.0"). No prose changes.

**Pass 4 (Cross-references):** `:ref:\`explanation-transactional-ddl\`` on line 52 resolves to `docs/explanation/transactional-ddl-and-limitations.rst:4`.

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## docs/reference/drop-semantic-view.rst

**Pass 1 (Terminology):** No drift.

**Pass 2 (Diataxis -- Reference):** Stays in reference shape.

**Pass 3 (Humanizer):** Single-token edit ("Since v0.8.1" -> "Since v0.8.0"). No prose changes.

**Pass 4 (Cross-references):** `:ref:\`explanation-transactional-ddl\`` on line 36 resolves to `docs/explanation/transactional-ddl-and-limitations.rst:4`.

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## docs/explanation/index.rst (WIP -- terminology pass only)

### SUGGESTION

| Section | Description | Fix |
|---------|-------------|-----|
| Bullet list, line 15 | The bullet for the transactional-DDL page describes the page contents as covering "read visibility, error formatting, and concurrent writers." The "error formatting" topic was removed from the target page in this session (the entire `_explanation-txn-ddl-error-formatting` section was deleted). The `:ref:` itself still resolves to the page, but the descriptive text is now misleading. | The project author should update this bullet to reflect the actual topics now covered: read visibility, concurrent writers, and the PEG parser quirk. Out of scope for this run because the page is WIP from a prior author session. |

**Pass 1 (Terminology):** No drift in the toctree entries.

**Pass 4 (Cross-references):** The toctree entry `transactional-ddl-and-limitations` resolves to the refreshed file.

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## docs/how-to/yaml-definitions.rst (WIP -- terminology pass only)

**Pass 1 (Terminology):** No drift detected. `CREATE SEMANTIC VIEW`, `FROM YAML`, `FROM YAML FILE`, "DuckDB", "YAML", `BEGIN ... ROLLBACK`, `:ref:\`explanation-transactional-ddl\`` all match canonical forms.

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## docs/reference/create-semantic-view.rst (WIP -- terminology pass only)

**Pass 1 (Terminology):** No drift. References to `:ref:\`explanation-transactional-ddl\`` (line 111) and `:ref:\`explanation-txn-ddl-create-race\`` (line 115) target preserved anchors in the refreshed page.

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## docs/reference/describe-semantic-view.rst (WIP -- terminology pass only)

**Pass 1 (Terminology):** No drift. `:ref:\`explanation-txn-ddl-write-visibility\`` (line 33) targets a preserved anchor.

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## docs/reference/show-semantic-views.rst (WIP -- terminology pass only)

**Pass 1 (Terminology):** No drift. `:ref:\`explanation-txn-ddl-write-visibility\`` (line 42) targets a preserved anchor.

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## Terminology Changes

| Term | Before | After | Authority |
|------|--------|-------|-----------|
| _(none)_ | -- | -- | -- |

No terminology normalisations were applied in this run. The `.doc-writer/terminology.yaml` file did not need updating.
