Failure-pattern registry · version 1.0.0
No resolution deadline stated
PMI-WP-004WordingTrack: Contract design & wordingRevised
Definition
Written to be quoted. This is the sentence to cite when a counterparty disagrees, not the sentence the tool shows you.
The text states no date or bounded period after which the question stops being open. An unbounded question cannot be settled against, and cannot be shown to have failed to settle.
Remedy
State the date the question closes, and what happens if the event has not occurred by then.
Severity
Wording — clarify before this goes live
Where it comes from
What makes a question resolvable?
Ambiguity is the dominant failure mode in event markets. This track catalogues wording patterns that survive contested outcomes, and the ones that reliably produce disputes.
Cite this
The identifier names the pattern for good. The version names the exact wording of the definition above, which is what an argument about a contract actually turns on.
Prediction Markets Institute, “No resolution deadline stated” (PMI-WP-004), wording failure-pattern registry v1.0.0, https://www.predictionmarketadvisors.com/patterns/PMI-WP-004
Machine-readable: /patterns.json carries every pattern with these fields, and POST /api/clinic returns this URL on any flag it raises.