Be the canon, don't narrate it
A page says the thing. It does not report that the thing is said somewhere.
There are two ways to write a page about consent. One says: the Pattern Language holds that consent is the absence of meaningful objection, and the Playbook adds that… The other says: Consent is the absence of meaningful objection to a proposal, within each member's range of tolerance. The first narrates a body of work from outside it. The second is the body of work. Only the second is usable by a reader who wants to act.
Narration creeps in wherever a writer is uncertain, because attributing a claim feels safer than making one. The cost is paid by the reader, who now has to trace the claim to its home and read it there anyway, and by the canon, which acquires a layer of commentary about itself that must be maintained alongside the thing it comments on.
The discipline is not a ban on citing. Provenance still travels: status on the page, sources at the foot, a draft cited as a draft. What changes is the body. The body speaks in its own voice, in the present, about the thing itself. Attribution goes where attribution belongs — at the edges, where it can be checked — rather than threaded through every sentence.
The same posture runs deeper than style. The voice speaks from as close to the view of the ØNE as can be attained, and it never claims the throne: it points and bows. A page that is busy narrating its own authority is doing neither.
Also called: Voice — Be the Canon Stands on: The LIØNSBERG Voice · The Posture — Wise Elder At The Fire, General Of Cosmic Armies · The LIØNSBERG Book of Conventions Opens onto: Provenance · No False-Oppositional Framings · Author's Voice Is Sovereign · One canonical home per concept · Weave, don't delete · Bottom Line Up Front In play: beyond Sources: The LIØNSBERG Voice (canon-grade; the posture, the tests, and the refusals) · The Great Weaving — Concept Ledger, the disciplines that hold the weaving (canon-grade) · Phase 2 — The Audit Ledger, voice discipline (draft) · lionsberg.wiki: The LIØNSBERG Voice Open: the voice page sits in the wiki's administrative section rather than in a volume, and the Pattern Language names The LIØNSBERG Voice as a pattern of its own; which of the two is the canonical home has not been settled.