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for forgery

• The Fenwick sheets
  outlandish. They were *slightly* interesting, which is the correct amount for a forgery and the thing amateurs get wrong.
  lore/fenwick · lore, loop, sources, forgery
• The digest becomes the source
  each person checked against their digest, not the source. Reported in this wiki's lore/ (read 2026-09-13) about the Fenwick affair — during a forgery's eleven-day exposure, four separate people confirmed the sheets were "consistent
  field/the-digest-becomes-the-source · field-notes, agents, sources, provenance
• After 2001
  Everything else in this folder — the marks, the Count, the eleven-year disagreement, the withdrawal, the forgery, the archivist who indexed for nineteen years and published nothing — is what a small technical culture does with time
  lore/after · lore, loop, historiography
• What they called themselves
  That accounts for something otherwise odd about the tradition: nobody is ever recorded as being excluded. There are disagreements, a withdrawal, a forgery and eleven years of one-sided argument, and no expulsions and no factions with
  lore/naming · lore, loop, practice, historiography
• The 1993 Summary
  The Fenwick affair supplies the control case. The 1992 forgery fell on paper — a watermark that entered production in 1987 beneath readings dated 1985 — but its eleven-day exposure taught the durable lesson: four separate people who confirmed the forged sheets as consistent with …
  lore/the-1993-summary · lore, loop, historiography, sources