Publish leadership appearance backfill

README.md

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Run the same discovery locally with an explicit date:
 bun run history:news:pull -- --as-of 2026-08-20 --json-out /tmp/stripe-news.json --markdown-out /tmp/stripe-news.md
 ```
 
-The manual [leadership appearance backfill](./.github/workflows/appearance-backfill.yml) searches one bounded calendar window at a time from 2009 onward and uploads a review artifact. It does not edit public data or open issues. A reviewer can normalize a completed run into the public, nonindexable [appearance backfill queue](https://stripehistory.com/appearances/backfill); candidates remain separate from the reviewed appearance corpus until full source review. The same window can be inspected locally:
+The manual [leadership appearance backfill](./.github/workflows/appearance-backfill.yml) searches one bounded calendar window at a time from 2009 onward and uploads a private review artifact. It does not edit public data or open issues. Reviewers deduplicate the artifact, capture the retained sources, and merge only evidence-backed records into the main [leadership appearances](https://stripehistory.com/appearances) catalog. The same window can be inspected locally:
 
 ```sh
 bun run history:news:pull -- --from 2020-01-01 --as-of 2020-12-31 --monitor exa-stripe-leadership-appearances --json-out /tmp/stripe-appearances-2020.json --markdown-out /tmp/stripe-appearances-2020.md

app/appearances/page.test.tsx

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ describe("Stripe leadership appearances", () => {
     expect(html).toContain('"@type":"CollectionPage"');
     expect(html).toContain('"@type":"PodcastEpisode"');
     expect(html).toContain('"@type":"VideoObject"');
-    expect(html).toContain('href="/appearances/backfill"');
-    expect(html).toContain("Review 31 historical appearance candidates");
+    expect(html).not.toContain('href="/appearances/backfill"');
   });
 });

app/appearances/page.tsx

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { loadHistory } from "@/lib/content";
-import { loadAppearanceBackfill } from "@/lib/appearance-backfill";
 import { JsonLdScript } from "@hraness/web-discovery/json-ld";
 import type { Metadata } from "next";
 import Link from "next/link";
@@ -30,10 +29,7 @@ function durationLabel(seconds: number | undefined): string | null {
 }
 
 export default async function AppearancesPage() {
-  const [history, backfill] = await Promise.all([
-    loadHistory(),
-    loadAppearanceBackfill(),
-  ]);
+  const history = await loadHistory();
   const sourceById = new Map(history.sources.map((source) => [source.id, source]));
 
   return (
@@ -60,12 +56,6 @@ export default async function AppearancesPage() {
           <span>{history.appearances.length} reviewed</span>
         </div>
         <p className="stripe-history-appearances-intro">{description}</p>
-        <p className="stripe-history-appearances-intro">
-          <Link href="/appearances/backfill">
-            Review {backfill.candidates.length} historical appearance candidates
-          </Link>{" "}
-          from the public 2009–2026 leadership backfill.
-        </p>
         <ol className="stripe-history-appearance-list">
           {history.appearances.map((appearance) => {
             const sources = appearance.source_ids.flatMap((sourceId) => {

app/data/page.test.tsx

@@ -37,9 +37,8 @@ describe("Stripe company history dataset", () => {
     expect(html).toContain('href="/research/sources.yml"');
     expect(html).toContain('href="/research/valuations.yml"');
     expect(html).toContain('href="/research/appearances.yml"');
-    expect(html).toContain('href="/appearances/backfill"');
-    expect(html).toContain('href="/research/appearance-backfill.yml"');
-    expect(html).toContain("31 candidates");
+    expect(html).not.toContain('href="/appearances/backfill"');
+    expect(html).not.toContain('href="/research/appearance-backfill.yml"');
     expect(html).toContain('href="/research/collections.yml"');
     expect(html).toContain('href="/research/runs.yml"');
     expect(html).toContain(`${history.sources.length} canonical sources`);

app/data/page.tsx

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { loadHistory } from "@/lib/content";
-import { loadAppearanceBackfill } from "@/lib/appearance-backfill";
 import { JsonLdScript } from "@hraness/web-discovery/json-ld";
 import type { Metadata } from "next";
 import Link from "next/link";
@@ -24,10 +23,7 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
 };
 
 export default async function DataPage() {
-  const [history, appearanceBackfill] = await Promise.all([
-    loadHistory(),
-    loadAppearanceBackfill(),
-  ]);
+  const history = await loadHistory();
   const countByCategory = new Map(
     history.categories.map(({ id }) => [
       id,
@@ -170,11 +166,6 @@ export default async function DataPage() {
               <a href="/research/appearances.yml">YAML</a> ·{" "}
               {history.appearances.length} appearances
             </li>
-            <li>
-              <Link href="/appearances/backfill">appearance backfill queue</Link> ·{" "}
-              <a href="/research/appearance-backfill.yml">YAML</a> ·{" "}
-              {appearanceBackfill.candidates.length} candidates
-            </li>
             <li>
               <a href="/research/collections.yml">research collections YAML</a>
             </li>

app/globals.css

@@ -291,59 +291,6 @@
   text-align: end;
 }
 
-.stripe-history-backfill-intro {
-  color: var(--plain-muted);
-  display: grid;
-  gap: 0.7rem;
-  margin-bottom: 2rem;
-  max-width: 42rem;
-}
-
-.stripe-history-backfill-intro p,
-.stripe-history-backfill-list h3,
-.stripe-history-backfill-list p {
-  margin: 0;
-}
-
-.stripe-history-backfill-years {
-  display: grid;
-  gap: 2rem;
-}
-
-.stripe-history-backfill-years > section > .stripe-history-section-heading {
-  border-top: 2px solid var(--plain-foreground);
-  margin-bottom: 0;
-  padding-top: 0.5rem;
-}
-
-.stripe-history-backfill-list {
-  list-style: none;
-  margin: 0;
-  padding: 0;
-}
-
-.stripe-history-backfill-list > li {
-  border-top: 1px solid var(--plain-line);
-}
-
-.stripe-history-backfill-list article {
-  padding-block: 0.85rem 1rem;
-}
-
-.stripe-history-backfill-list h3 {
-  font-family: var(--font-heading);
-  font-size: var(--text-label);
-  line-height: 1.35;
-  margin-top: 0.25rem;
-}
-
-.stripe-history-backfill-list .stripe-history-appearance-participants,
-.stripe-history-backfill-source {
-  color: var(--plain-muted);
-  font-size: var(--text-caption);
-  margin-top: 0.3rem;
-}
-
 .stripe-history-state button {
   background: var(--plain-foreground);
   border: 1px solid var(--plain-foreground);