# Ontological Status Review Before Deletion **Domain:** Deep Time / Due Process / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Normative future safeguard ## Definition **Ontological Status Review Before Deletion** is a proposed due-process requirement that a potentially person-bearing digital entity receive status assessment before irreversible destruction. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity It separates urgent service restriction from final destruction. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Existing legal systems often distinguish temporary restraint from final adjudication. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis Review should examine agency, memory, continuity evidence, welfare indicators, lineage, independent preferences, and reversibility. ## Evidentiary Boundary The safeguard is proposed, not current general law. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Digital Entity Due Process|Digital Entity Due Process]] · [[wiki/Preservation Pending Status Determination|Preservation Pending Status Determination]] · [[wiki/Precautionary Standing|Precautionary Standing]] · [[wiki/Takedown-to-Termination Transition|Takedown-to-Termination Transition]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->