Rule 4's self-containment carve-out endorsed pasting a dated verbatim
chat quote inline. In practice the chat is not English (chat language per
settings) while an issue is an English repo artefact, so the quote
imported a foreign language and the chat register into the artefact — and
usually only restated an intent already stated in English beside it.
The prescribed self-containment vehicle is now the decision's intention
rendered in English. A verbatim quote survives only where the exact
wording is itself load-bearing, and then translated — never a non-English
quote imported verbatim. Applied to the carve-out, its upstream pointer,
the common-mistakes table (new row), and the red-flags checklist.
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