lv-krakauer: PARKED — research is not a voice (operator, henge id 82)

Operator ruling: "he's a great writer because of his research, not because he has a strong
identifiable voice."

That reason is about the AUTHOR rather than the data, and it is the better of the two on the
table -- the other being the unmeasurable fraction of quoted material. It also names a
selection criterion this line did not have: ask whether there IS a voice worth adapting
before investigating whether a clean corpus can be built. That question was never asked here.
I surveyed the holdings, built the corpus, measured all fifteen containment pairs, and fixed
three stripping defects the name guard caught -- all real work, none of it touching the thing
that decided it.

A voice adapter is worth its corpus-plus-training-plus-gate only when the target has a prose
signature a reader could pick out blind. McCarthy: 0.0 quote marks per 10k against Hemingway's
838. Hemingway: spare declaratives, heavy unattributed dialogue. Brontë: periodic sentences
built on semicolons and dashes. If that sentence is hard to write, the author is a park.

Nothing is deleted. The corpus (126 units, 422,880 words) and the builder stay committed and
re-runnable; the park entry records what exists, what was never started (D2), and what would
unpark it -- a re-extraction preserving indentation and italics, which would fix the quoted-
material problem but not the operator's objection. The builder's own docstring now carries a
stop notice so a future session finds the reason at the artifact rather than only in memory.

persistent-memory.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Persistent memory — eshpfi-management
 
-_Last updated: 2026-09-17 ~08:30 PT (lv-hemingway SHIPPED; the floor rule went pairwise, which retroactively passes lv-bronte; McCarthy and Krakauer D1 corpora BUILT — Krakauer's quoted-material scope is an open operator call.)_
+_Last updated: 2026-09-17 ~08:45 PT (lv-hemingway SHIPPED; floor rule pairwise, which retroactively passes lv-bronte; lv-mccarthy D1 built and proceeding; lv-krakauer PARKED — research is not a voice.)_
 
 > **Always check for `/tmp/infra-ops-handoff.md`** — if it exists and its
 > `Written:` stamp is under **8 hours** old, read it (it carries the in-flight
@@ -152,16 +152,17 @@ runs no normalisation and asserts the quote density so a future change fails the
 will pass the voice axis without learning a sentence. **Pre-register a punctuation-normalised
 secondary read before gating lv-mccarthy.**
 
-### ⚠ OPEN, OPERATOR'S CALL — is lv-krakauer's corpus trainable at all?
+### ⛔ PARKED — `lv-krakauer` (operator, 2026-09-17). henge id **82**
 
-An **unmeasured and unmeasurable** fraction of it is other people's prose: McCandless's
+*"he's a great writer because of his research, not because he has a strong identifiable
-journals, Tillman's diaries, court transcripts, depositions, Mormon documents, paragraphs of
+voice."* ⭐ **The reason is about the AUTHOR, not the data, and it reframes the selection
-Jack London and Stegner. Print set those as indented/italic block quotes; **the extraction
+criterion for the whole line:** ask whether there IS a voice worth adapting before any
-lost both**, so they are ordinary paragraphs now. Only **52 words** were removable (epigraphs
+corpus work. That question was never asked here — corpus mechanics were investigated first.
-with a surviving attribution line) — 0.01%, and that number is NOT the answer: the method
+→ auto-memory `feedback_voice_worth_adapting_before_corpus`.
-would report 0.0% for a book made entirely of block quotes. Same error class as excluding
+
-*The Torrents of Spring* from Hemingway, distributed rather than concentrated. Scope is the
+The corpus (126 units, 422,880 words) and its builder stay committed and re-runnable. What
-operator's call exactly as fiction-only was. **Nothing is blocked on it but D2.**
+would unpark it is a re-extraction preserving indentation and italics, which fixes the
+unmeasurable-quoted-material problem but **not** the operator's objection.
 
 ### OPEN for the operator — two measured defects, neither acted on
 
@@ -207,6 +208,8 @@ before this session began. ⚠ **Do NOT commit them** — untouched and delibera
 
 ## Recent decisions
 
+- `[2026-09-17]` ⭐⭐⭐ **PARKED lv-krakauer, and the reason is a selection criterion the line was missing: ask whether the author HAS a voice before investigating whether the corpus is clean.** Operator: *"he's a great writer because of his research, not because he has a strong identifiable voice."* A voice adapter is worth its ~6 hours only if the target has a prose signature a reader could pick out blind; Krakauer's excellence is reporting, which an adapter cannot carry. I surveyed, built, measured containment and fixed three stripping defects before anyone asked the question that decided it. **For each candidate, say what the voice IS in one sentence and how it shows up in char-bigram space, before the first catalogue query.** henge id 82. → auto-memory `feedback_voice_worth_adapting_before_corpus`.
+
 - `[2026-09-17]` ⭐⭐ **A unit splitter must choose by SIZE, not by count — the inherited rule silently produced 22,000-word "chapters".** `scripts/r49-corpus/split_units.py`: a marker mode qualifies only if its median unit is inside [600, 12000] AND no unit holds half the work; among qualifying modes PRIORITY breaks the tie (contents > chapter-word > roman > bare-numeral > caps-title), and paragraph-block sections are the fallback for works with no divisions. ⭐ **Both rules exist because a control caught them**: scoring by "median closest to target" chose `caps-title` (6 units, one holding **97%** of the book) over True at First Light's real 20 chapters, because a median cannot see that distribution and a max bound can. Positive control: 8/10 Hemingway works reproduce the shipped mode and count exactly. Negative control: 40,000 words with no blank lines → 1 unit, refuses to fabricate divisions. Commit `705fa3a`.
 - `[2026-09-17]` ⭐ **lv-mccarthy D1 built — 167 units, 584,756 words — and the whole job was protecting a style that reads as damage.** 0.0 quote marks per 10k (Hemingway 838), `dont`/`aint`/`wont`. The builder runs NO typography normalisation and asserts the quote density afterwards. Two truncated catalogue rows dropped for complete mobi siblings; all 15 containment pairs measured (worst 0.10%); back matter in 4 of 6 works carried the author's name 26 times → 0. ⚠ The back-matter strip runs BEFORE the split here — Blood Meridian and The Crossing end with a dumped TOC of bare roman numerals, the exact shape of a chapter marker. Commit `f3bf3ca`.
 - `[2026-09-17]` ⭐ **lv-krakauer D1 built — 126 units, 422,880 words — and its name guard caught three defects nothing else would have reported.** Back matter searched only the LAST unit while the apparatus sat in unit 37 of 41; relying on the splitter to drop front matter failed because the ebook TOC sits above the author's note and gave it a `Chapter Thirty-Two` to start on; and **zero was the wrong bar** — 2 survivors are Krakauer writing about his own father in Into the Wild's autobiographical chapters, so the allowance is pinned at 2 with every survivor printed. ⚠ Both strips are windowed in the OPPOSITE direction from McCarthy's, because Krakauer's `ALSO BY`/`Copyright`/`About the Author` sit at 0.0–0.6% of the file. Commit `4be0630`.

scripts/krakauer-corpus/build_corpus_krakauer.py

@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 """D1 for lv-krakauer: build the corpus from the licensed Kvasir masters.
 
+⛔⛔ PARKED 2026-09-17 — DO NOT CARRY THIS TO D2 WITHOUT A NEW OPERATOR RULING.
+henge id 82, slug `lv-krakauer-voice-adapter-corpus-built-parked`.
+
+The operator's reason is about the AUTHOR, not the data, and it is the better of the two:
+*"he's a great writer because of his research, not because he has a strong identifiable
+voice."* A voice adapter is worth its corpus-plus-training-plus-gate only if the target has a
+prose signature a reader could pick out blind. Krakauer's excellence is reporting — access,
+research, structure — and an adapter cannot carry any of it. **That question should have been
+asked before any of the work below**; corpus quality was investigated first and the prior
+question skipped.
+
+Everything here still runs and the corpus still builds clean. What would unpark it is a
+re-extraction of the four ebooks with indentation and italics preserved — which fixes the
+quoted-material problem described below but NOT the operator's objection.
+
 Same record schema as the Brontë, Yarros, Hemingway and McCarthy builders, so entities.py,
 rename.py, leak_gate.py and the trainers run unchanged.