# kaal:claim:6192998-022

**Claim.** Without granular attribution a meaningful citation graph cannot be constructed, because the system cannot record which dimension of a contribution was valuable, for example strong conceptual innovation paired with poor execution.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- validation collapses multidimensional assessment into a single bit

**Source quote.**

> Without granular attribution, we cannot build a meaningful citation graph. We don't know that Alice's innovation insight was valuable even though her execution was poor, or that Bob's contribution was primarily in implementation rather than conceptual novelty.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution* (2026), III.C. Binary Information Destruction, page 23

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

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**Failure mode.** granularity-loss  (family: measurement-and-metric-failure)

**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge

**Keywords.** knowledge-graphs, granular-attribution, binary-validation, citation-graphs

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