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@@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ reached. Every pause carries an expiry — a Lane cannot be stopped indefinitely
 outlives a restart, being a fact about the Site rather than about the running process.
 _Avoid_: disabled, off, stopped, suspended, kill switch (that is the deploy-time switch)
 
+**Stall**:
+A Poll Lane that owed Polls, made none, and has nothing to say for it. Distinct from the
+two conditions it resembles: a Site that refuses is exercising the pace it is entitled to,
+and a Lane the owner paused was told to stop — a Stall is neither asked for nor explained.
+It is the one fault no Reader surface can show: every Bookmark still opens, Progress still
+syncs, and Latest Chapter is quietly wrong for as long as it lasts.
+_Avoid_: outage, downtime, failure, backlog, lag
+
 **Sighting**:
 What a Reader's browser happened to see of a Series's Latest Chapter while that Reader
 was on the page. It reports the same fact as a Poll but carries none of its authority:
@@ -127,6 +135,14 @@ facts, which no Poll does unless the owner forces one. It happens once in a Seri
 life; every later read of the same page is a Poll.
 _Avoid_: initial poll, first fetch, prefetch, warm-up
 
+**Correction**:
+A Latest Chapter the owner sets by hand, on a Series no Poll can read. It reports the
+same fact as a Poll and carries even less authority than a Sighting: the next Poll
+overwrites it, so does any Reader's Sighting, and it is never a floor or a pin. It
+exists only because the Site page is unreadable — where a Poll can read the page, the
+Poll is the answer and a Correction is not wanted.
+_Avoid_: override, pin, manual value, fix
+
 **New Chapter**:
 The state where Latest Chapter is ahead of Progress. The single condition the ember
 accent is permitted to signal.