site: copy edit — 1 subtitle corrected for consistency with its own fact-check

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- **euro-banknote-design-proposals** was the fourth-ranked candidate and the closest call. Held deliberately: the ECB's shortlist is a live public consultation, the survey is open, and a review written today would be about a process whose outcome changes it. Better as a find now and a review when a design is chosen — at which point the story is *which* one won and why, which is the more interesting piece.
- **yap-mac-dictation** and **etymologue** both clear the bar on substance but are heroless, and a review tile with no media is a poor trade when three hero-bearing candidates were available. Held as finds; both are strong candidates for a thinner day.
## 2026-07-28 — copy edit
Fresh-eyes sonnet subagent over all 26 pieces of prose written this run (17 find bodies, 6 bundle blurbs/intros, 3 review bodies). **No prose changes — but the pass earned its keep anyway.**
The subagent measured rather than estimated: find bodies came in at 4075 words against the 4090 budget, reviews at 380 / 373 / 420 against 250450, every bundle blurb one sentence and every intro one or two. It also swept all 26 files for ad-copy tells and found none.
**The catch.** It flagged something outside its own remit and correctly declined to fix it: the `submarine-safari-tenerife` **review's subtitle still asserted "A Finnish-built submarine" as fact, while the body two paragraphs down hedges exactly that claim** as reported-not-confirmed. That contradiction was introduced by the reviews stage — the find's subtitle was corrected during fact-checking and the review's was not. Fixed in the main session to "A submarine that takes 44 people thirty metres under Tenerife". Recording it because the copy editor was right on both counts: right that it was wrong, and right that changing a claim is not a copy editor's job.
**Third consecutive clean run — and the 07-25 instruction to spot-check was honoured rather than skipped.** Three pieces the subagent passed (`rooey-ii-big-kangaroo`, `joke-february-march-april-may`, the `one-pair-of-hands` bundle intro) were read by hand in the main session and are genuinely within budget and in voice, and the independent ad-copy grep matched the subagent's result. The streak is real, not generous grading — and this run it produced a catch no word count would have found, which is a better argument for the stage than a tightened sentence would have been.
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name: "Submarine Safari"
subtitle: "A Finnish-built submarine that takes 44 people under Tenerife"
subtitle: "A submarine that takes 44 people thirty metres under Tenerife"
date: 2026-07-28
category: places
topics: [travel-and-places, outdoors-and-nature]