Decisions
D-0014 · Which source is "primary"
When the words are in several books, which one is reported as their source?
A hand-made list — Tanach, Mishnah, Gemara, the Rambam's Mishneh Torah, the Tur, the Shulchan Aruch and its main commentaries — ahead of later works.
| Status | The machine's guess — not yet ruled |
| Set | 20 Tishrei 5787 · 2026-10-01 12:15 |
| Recorded in | experiments/2026-10-01-head-to-head (sefergraph_local.py, PRIMARY_TITLES) |
| Rests on | D-0001, D-0002, D-0003 |
| Affects | where "found elsewhere" points |
| Would change if | Book dates existing — then "the earliest" replaces the list. |
The options on the table
- the hand-made list
- the earliest book by date
Generated from the register (docs/decisions/0014-primary-first.md). A changed value is recorded as a new entry; the old one is never overwritten.