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Good to see a consensus forming on this. As Dave no doubt understands well, there is significant value in "write once, report many" and in that light the first order of business is identifying what/where the data master is and how/where the information it governs should be distributed. Tentacles feeding automated updates from masters to reporting pages is ideal of course but not always immediately doable. That's where the volunteers are so valuable.

But to avoid confusion, maybe it would be helpful for every page replicating info that's governed elsewhere to clearly identify the original source as the master. Maybe that could minimize well-intended but ultimately wasteful efforts of "reinventing the wheel"...
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