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Terminology consistency wave: corpus-splitting terms, the 边际/边缘 pattern residue, and mistransliterated researcher names #268

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The 2026-08-20 full-corpus quality review (project-translation#50) found within- and cross-lecture terminology inconsistency is the edition's dominant editorial defect — present in roughly a third of lectures. This issue collects the wave; each ruling should also feed the engine glossary so syncs stop reintroducing the losing variant.

Corpus-splitting terms (rule one rendering each)

Term Competing renderings
discount factor 贴现因子 (~9 lectures) vs 折现因子 (~8, sometimes both in one file)
value function (iteration) 价值函数(迭代) vs 值函数(迭代) (≈6:4)
endogenous grid method 内生网格法 vs 内生网格方法
Riccati 黎卡提 / 里卡蒂 / 李卡提 / untranslated
type I/II error 第一类/第二类错误 vs I类/II类错误 vs 类型I/类型II错误
unemployment compensation 失业补偿 / 失业补助 / 失业补偿金 / 失业补助金
overlapping generations 世代交叠 vs 代际交叠
self-confirming equilibrium 自我确认均衡 vs 自证均衡
separation rate 分离率 vs 离职率
Kalman-filter innovation 新息 vs 创新 (创新 is wrong-register in 3 lectures, incl. a section heading in kalman_2)

Worst within-lecture offenders (for the editor queue): mix_model (agent five ways: 类型1智能体/代理/学习者/第1类人/第1类主体), likelihood_ratio_process_2 (agent four ways across 116 occurrences), two_auctions (FPSB and SPSB each three ways, including the title), ge_arrow (Arrow securities as 阿罗证券/箭头证券/untranslated; 各州 for state-by-state).

Extend the #201 ruling from the term to the pattern

#201 eliminated 边际分布, but the same character confusion survives in wordings its sweep never matched — statistical marginal-X should be 边缘X: exchangeable (边际密度, systematic), likelihood_ratio_process_2 (×3), linear_models, mle (one each, both files also use the correct form nearby), phillips_drifts_volatilities (边际先验/边际后验). Economics marginal (成本/效用/倾向) stays 边际.

Four name mistransliterations (one-line fixes)

  • Kiyotaki → 北原 (bounded_rationality; standard is 清泷)
  • Chentsov → 陈氏 (blackwell_kihlstrom)
  • Tsallis → 查理斯 (blackwell_kihlstrom, two docstrings)
  • Zha → 扎 (phillips_drifts_volatilities; convention 查)

Plus unstable transliterations to normalise within single lectures: Wald (three forms in wald_friedman_2), Kolmogorov, Bewley, Raphson, Phelps 费/菲.

Also worth one policy ruling

Wikipedia links are silently swapped for Baidu Baike / Zhihu / CSDN targets in ≥8 lectures — plausibly deliberate accessibility localisation, but undeclared and inconsistent, and rand_resp's differential-privacy link points at an unrelated page. Rule it once, then sweep.

Every finding with quotes and locations: data/quality.json in the audit directory; the per-lecture table in the report is the priority queue.

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