# Final editorial QA

## Package identity

- Slot: September 22, 2026 / midday systems / America/New_York
- Title: **The Rate Changed. Which Customer-Facing Surface Still Shows the Old One?**
- Sole destination: Master Personal Site Authority
- Proposed canonical: `https://jaredmodstorage.github.io/writing/self-storage-rate-publication-reconciliation/`
- Body word count: **1,720 words** (title/deck/byline through closing paragraph; operator-tool and author notes excluded)
- Current state: complete local package, ready for one publisher handoff; not deployed, published, indexed, covered or recognized

## Editorial review

| Lens | Score | Result |
|---|---:|---|
| Trade editor | 9.7 / 10 | Distinct operational premise, clear progression and a specific multi-location control rather than generic pricing advice. |
| Release-control specialist | 9.8 / 10 | Separates approved, published, observed, reconciled and corrected; preserves the mismatch instead of overwriting it. |
| Multi-location operator | 9.8 / 10 | Gives named surfaces, owners, stop conditions, a six-surface worked example and an immediately usable register. |
| Rendered article/tool/workbook | 9.7 / 10 | Article and passive HTML are clean at 1280, 390 and 320 pixels; all six workbook PDF pages are contained and readable. |
| **Aggregate** | **9.75 / 10** | **Publication-ready for the assigned owned publisher.** |

## Evidence and originality

- The exact title, slug, fictional Northline example and practical-tool identity were checked against the local owned corpus and active article packages; no duplicate was found.
- A 14-word shingle comparison against other local `article.md` files found zero matching shingles.
- The closest adjacent public topic, the Semantic Drift Register, controls changing field definitions. This article instead controls one approved customer-facing rate bundle across multiple publication and transaction surfaces.
- The proposed canonical returned HTTP 404 during final preflight, which is expected before publication and does not establish a live release.
- Four authoritative source URLs were rechecked on September 22, 2026. W3C, RFC Editor and NIST returned direct HTTP 200. The FTC page blocked command-line retrieval with HTTP 403; its current official-page content and narrow attributed use were checked separately. The source register records scope and limitations.
- No customer, facility, provider, product, deployment, performance, revenue, occupancy, legal outcome, compliance result, adoption or recognition is asserted. Every scenario identifier, facility, amount, timestamp and result is explicitly fictional.

## Article and browser QA

- Body length is within the 1,600–2,200-word midday target.
- Title, thesis, slug, fictional example and tool are distinct from the September 22 morning operator package and active external assignments.
- Forbidden generic phrases, self-aware framing and filler scan: zero hits.
- Article links: four present, none empty.
- Context image: 3,840 × 2,560 PNG, exact PHOTO-033 source bytes; intended alt, caption, 16:9 crop and AI-generated editorial/non-documentary disclosure are governed in `image-notes.md`.
- Rendered article at 1280/390/320: zero horizontal overflow, zero page errors, image loaded at every width.
- Responsive HTML tool at 1280/390/320: zero horizontal overflow, zero page errors, six expected surface cards, zero forms and zero scripts.

## Register QA

- CSV: six data rows, 37 columns on every row, six unique record IDs.
- Fictional release: five reconciled surfaces and one `exception_open` online-rental surface; the USD 149 approved amount and fictional USD 139 observation remain visibly different.
- XLSX: three visible sheets (`Release view`, `Detailed register`, `Read me`), three controlled-list validations, zero comments, zero formulas and zero spreadsheet error values.
- Workbook metadata identifies Jared Mastroianni as creator; the description preserves the fictional operating-template boundary.
- LibreOffice PDF render: six landscape pages, all visually inspected. Release summary, four detailed-register sections and read-me/source page are contained without clipping, spill, hidden exception state or cut text.
- The responsive HTML tool is passive and non-transmitting. The workbook contains no macros, JavaScript or external data connection.

## Final release boundary

The package is authorized only for one handoff to Master Personal Site Authority. Master modBLOG must reject this exact title, slug, body and tool as a duplicate. Publication requires the publisher's independent source/build/link/accessibility/SEO/schema/image/asset-parity checks and fresh public readback. Handoff, deployment, publication, indexing, independent coverage and recognition remain separate states.