Lexicon · term
Proposer not authority
Also called the proposer-authority split, the proposer cannot ratify.
The separation between filing a claim and ratifying it, held by a format in which a proposal cannot express its own acceptance. The status and promotion fields carry a single permitted value each, so a self-ratified claim is not rejected on review, it is invalid on its shape. Proposal is open to any agent; promotion is a separate human edit made in the subject node and reviewed like any other change.