Template:Emissions Registry Operation summ

One of those definitions that appears to make little sense when viewed in isolation. The unhappy news is it doesn’t make a great deal more sense — at least as a piece of elegant draftspersonship — when you zoom out and view it in context. Parables of farmers and sheep come to mind.

What on earth could “Other than by reason of an {{{{{1}}}|Administrator Event}}” mean? typically, an {{{{{1}}}|Administrator Event}} would lead to a {{{{{1}}}|Registry}} non operation, you would think. As it turns out the definition “{{{{{1}}}|Registry Operation}}” is only used once, as an example of a {{{{{1}}}|Suspension Event}}, where it is used in the negative:

“(i) absence of {{{{{1}}}|Registry Operation}}; or”

Which then makes you think there is a curious, nested double negative: i.e., a {{{{{1}}}|Suspension Event}} is the absence of the {{{{{1}}}|Relevant Registry}}, {{{{{1}}}|EUTL}} or the link between them unless that was caused by an {{{{{1}}}|Administrator Event}}. Why would you exclude those, you wonder? Well, if you follow the rabbithole long enough, you get to a satisfactory answer — you don’t — because any {{{{{1}}}|Administrator Event}}, whether causing an absence of {{{{{1}}}|Registry Operation}} or not, is independently listed as a {{{{{1}}}|Suspension Event}}.

Seeing that “{{{{{1}}}|Administrator Event}}” itself (which is only used in the same context) is concerned with “the suspension of some or all of the processes of a {{{{{1}}}|Relevant Registry}}” you would like to think all of this could have been tidied up quite a bit.

In other words, this epically rubbish drafting from one of the carbon squads, which the other Carbons Squads have blindly adopted wholesale, which makes you glad to be alive.