A Mercury methods paper formalizing a measurement ledger that separates formal fullgrid passes, partial or legacy runs, visual-only atlases, and failed attempts. The paper defines run admissibility, threshold validity, provenance completeness, archive safety, and paper-claim eligibility to stop a research program from accidentally lying to itself. Copyright (c) 2026 Chen, Ho Yiing (norika). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Ho Yiing Chen (Fri,) studied this question.