The 44 controls / TS16

TS16 · Internal discoverability

Every important page receives at least one crawlable internal link.

Protocol wording · 0.1.0-draft.28 · Documentation view; no website assessment.

Control rule version : 0.1.0-draft.19

Reading guide: start with applicability and required evidence, then read expectations together with their limitations. Understand C, NC, NT and NA outcomes · Prepare a dossier

Expectations and evidence

Required inputs (protocol identifiers)
crawl, inventory, intent
When it applies
Pages identified as important in an inventory.
How to check
Crawl from public entry points and list pages with no incoming HTML link.
Expectation
Every selected page has at least one resolvable incoming HTML link from an internal page; source and destination are archived.
Evidence to retain
Link source, destination, anchor and destination status.
Non-applicability
No relevant important page, with justification and inventory provided.
Limitations
The presence of a link does not prove its editorial value.
Outcome clarification
C requires all expectations across the declared scope. NC requires evidenced contradiction; otherwise NT. NA requires evidence of non-applicability.
Reference scope
Technical reference; the TSEP acceptance rule remains an editorial proposal.

Atomic rules

This control is documented in the protocol. This version does not yet attach executable atomic rules to it.

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