The paper does not silently rewrite its past. Evidence can revise claims, parameters, experiments, and conclusions only through a numbered edition whose ancestry and decisions remain inspectable.
1published edition
Nonecandidate state
1typed decisions
1dated observation record
Edition covenant
Continual evidence, discrete publication
Evidence may arrive continuously. The public paper changes only at an edition boundary, after its exact candidate bytes, source set, decisions, and live receipt agree. Canonization is editorial authority; it is not authority to speak for a source, certify a model independently, launch a fork, or declare consensus.