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barrysloateI see two relevant points in David's text that are worth discussing:
First, he admits that if a minor restoration such as a pencil erasure is undetected, then a card will be encapsulated and will remain so forever. Despite the fact that some purists object to even a minute alteration to the card's surface, there is nothing that can be done if it simply can not be found.
Second, David rightly states that it is not SGC's place to tell submitters what they may or may not do to a card. It is very much their place to detect alterations. Thus, if any submitter alters a card in any way, that card should never get into a holder in the first place. That to me is the issue- not what has been done to a card, but how it finds its way into a holder.