Batch Review — prestub-persons

Source: N/A (meta-prep batch; figures gathered from CONTEXT.md, existing /persons/, DP Part 1 + Part 2 chapter titles under resources/DP/, the handoff document /tmp/handoff-prestub-glossary.md § persons list, and standard DP/UC providential-history coverage). Scope: 22 person stubs. No atomics. No new tags. Variant: foundation-pass (ADR-0021) Phase: Foundation Pass — Phase 1 (pre-stub persons). Closes Phase 1; Phase 2 (DP chapter atomization) is next.

Purpose

Scaffold the canonical UC + biblical-providence cast as one-paragraph person stubs so every subsequent foundation-pass chapter session can wikilink [[jesus]], [[adam]], [[moses]], etc. without per-session “does this person file exist?” guessing. Summaries are intentionally short and shape-neutral — they place the figure historically, state their providential role in DP, and stay out of interpretive controversy that downstream atomics will own.

Person stubs created (22)

Pre-existing in /persons/ (NOT re-stubbed): sun-myung-moon, hyung-jin-moon.

Genesis — Fall and patriarchs (11)

FileTitle
adam.mdAdam
eve.mdEve
cain.mdCain
abel.mdAbel
noah.mdNoah
abraham.mdAbraham
isaac.mdIsaac
jacob.mdJacob
esau.mdEsau
joseph-son-of-jacob.mdJoseph (son of Jacob)
tamar.mdTamar

Exodus through prophets (4)

FileTitle
moses.mdMoses
david.mdDavid
solomon.mdSolomon
elijah.mdElijah

New Testament (6)

FileTitle
john-the-baptist.mdJohn the Baptist
mary.mdMary
joseph-husband-of-mary.mdJoseph (husband of Mary)
jesus.mdJesus
peter.mdPeter
paul.mdPaul

UC (1)

FileTitle
hak-ja-han.mdHak Ja Han

Suspected duplicates / cross-batch notes

  • No related: field on any person stub. Existing sun-myung-moon.md and hyung-jin-moon.md don’t use one either. Person stubs link to each other via plain-text references in summaries; this avoids the symmetric-closure cascade that the glossary batch hit on first commit attempt (where related: entries count as wikilinks and force matching ## Referenced by backlinks).
  • Two Josephs, disambiguated by filename slug — joseph-son-of-jacob and joseph-husband-of-mary. Both display titles are parenthesised; wikilinks must use the full slug.
  • Jesus’s aliases: includes “the Second Adam” but the second-Adam slug is not its own page (would invite confusion with adam). If you’d like a separate “second-adam” disambiguation page, flag it now.
  • Mary’s role as restorative-Eve is summarised non-controversially; downstream atomics will own the more contested DP claims about Mary’s failure to fully cooperate (Cana, Mark 3:31-35).
  • John the Baptist’s failure is summarised compactly in the stub. This is one of DP’s most distinctive christology claims and will get a dedicated cluster of atomics during DP Part 1 Ch 4 (the Messiah). Stub body kept brief on purpose.

Persons considered but DEFERRED

The following biblical/UC figures were considered for this batch but not stubbed. They can be added in a follow-up prestub-persons-followup batch if downstream atomization reveals they’re being wikilinked regularly:

  • Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, Rachel — patriarchal wives. Secondary in DP’s providence-of-restoration narrative; can be added when atomized chapters cite them.
  • Joshua — completed the entry to Canaan but not himself a foundation-of-faith pivot per DP.
  • Zechariah, Elizabeth — parents of John the Baptist; cited but not load-bearing.
  • Judah, Perez, Boaz, Ruth — Messianic-lineage figures; lineage-only mentions.
  • Judas Iscariot — DP discusses him; flag for follow-up.
  • Mary Magdalene, Lazarus, Martha — NT supporting cast; flag for follow-up.
  • John the Apostle — apostolic; flag for follow-up.
  • Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin — secondary-literature comparative figures; better added if/when atomized chapters cite them directly.
  • Buddha, Confucius, Muhammad, Lao Tzu, Krishna — comparative-religion figures. Likely needed during WS atomization (Phase 4) but not during DP. Defer to a prestub-persons-comparative batch when WS starts.
  • Hyo Jin Moon, Kook Jin Moon, In Jin Moon — Moon family members; defer until atomization actually cites them.
  • Hendricks, Stark, Kwak, Hatch — UC and sociology-of-religion authors. They appear in existing BR/CSG-01 atomics as inline (Hendricks 2010)-style citations rather than [[hendricks]] wikilinks. If downstream batches want them as Person notes (for cross-referencing their works), add a prestub-persons-authors batch then.

Tag-registry requests

None. Person stubs carry no tags (none of the existing person files do either).

Korean transliteration — confidence flags

For most stubs I included a Korean alias. Confidence is high for biblical names (these are standard Korean Christian transliterations) and Korean names (Hak Ja Han). I’ve intentionally not added Korean for the two Josephs’ disambiguators beyond the bare name. If anything reads off, flag inline.

Parked items

None.

Meta-prep batch; no atomics → no thread/question/web-search candidates. The three _meta/parking/*.md files receive no entries on this finalize.

How to review

  1. Open /staging/prestub-persons/persons/ in Obsidian or VS Code.
  2. Scan summaries for accuracy and tone — these are one-paragraph anchors every downstream session will see.
  3. Edit aliases / role / summary inline where needed.
  4. For any figure that shouldn’t exist as a stub, delete the file and note it under “deleted” here.
  5. For any figure missing that you want pre-stubbed now (rather than in a follow-up), add it.
  6. Say “approved” → finalize moves files to /persons/, archives this REVIEW to _meta/batch-reviews/prestub-persons.md, deletes the now-empty /staging/prestub-persons/, and creates a single commit.

Finalize checklist

  • Move 22 files from /staging/prestub-persons/persons//persons/
  • Copy this REVIEW to _meta/batch-reviews/prestub-persons.md
  • Delete /staging/prestub-persons/
  • Parking files unchanged (no items this batch)
  • Pre-commit hook passes — empty ## Referenced by sections pass for fresh stubs since no atomic yet wikilinks to them; existing sun-myung-moon.md and hyung-jin-moon.md Referenced-by sections are unchanged because no new stub wikilinks to them
  • Single atomic commit with message referencing this batch ID

Phase 1 → Phase 2 transition

This is the closing batch of Foundation Pass Phase 1 (pre-stubs). After this finalize:

  • /glossary/ has 51 entries (12 pre-existing + 39 from prestub-glossary) covering DP’s canonical vocabulary
  • /persons/ has 24 entries (2 pre-existing + 22 from this batch) covering the providence cast
  • The 3 _meta/parking/ files remain empty

Phase 2 (DP chapter-by-chapter atomization) can now begin. First DP batch suggestion: dp-1-1-principle-of-creation (resources/DP/Part1/Chapter01-the-principle-of-creation/). The per-session checklist in /home/kenmen/.claude/plans/there-s-a-lot-of-declarative-papert.md § “Per-session checklist” applies.