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[finding] 1316 duplicate heading anchors remain on 162 of 214 reference pages — the section grammar's own headings (### Properties, ### Allowed Values, #### Option N) carry no qualifier at all #12862

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Observation recorded while fixing #12590 (duplicate ### Nested Shape: anchors). Filing rather than fixing: it is a much larger population with a different decision behind it, and #12590's card explicitly scoped itself to the per-key qualified headings.

What was measured

Counting duplicate heading TEXTS per emitted page under content/docs/references/**, on the tree regenerated with #12590's fix applied (214 pages):

excess=1316  pages=162  distinct heading texts=6

Broken down by heading text (excess occurrences summed across pages):

excess heading
1133 ### Properties
145 ### Allowed Values
12 ### Union Options
12 #### Option 1
12 #### Option 2
2 #### Option 3

The worst single page is content/docs/references/ui/view.mdx with 44 occurrences of ### Properties; api/protocol.mdx has 124.

Why this is a separate question from #12590

Two different kinds of heading live on these pages, and only one of them was ever qualified:

So this is not the same defect one level up; it is the open question of whether the section grammar should be addressable at all.

What is NOT claimed here

  • Nothing in the repo is known to link to these anchors. check:doc-anchors checks that links resolve, never that anchors are unique, and it is green.
  • Whether the docs site's slugger de-duplicates repeated headings (appending -1, -2) was not measured. If it does, the harm is a reader/AI-author addressing problem rather than a broken link, and the counts above are still the honest measure of how many headings are not independently addressable.

Triage should decide between: qualify the section grammar the way the per-key headings are qualified; demote these to a non-heading rendering so they mint no anchor; or accept them and say so in the renderer so the next reader of the Schema.key qualifier does not read the inconsistency as a bug.

Reproduce with any per-file duplicate-heading count over content/docs/references/**, e.g. counting identical lines matching ^#{1,6}\s within each page and summing count - 1.

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