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+# Album proposals
+
+[← Documentation index](../index.md) · [Guided first pass](../first-pass.md)
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+![Reviewing an album proposal](../images/albums.png)
+
+**What it is for.** Turning a folder of analysed photographs into a name a person
+would have chosen, before any folder is touched.
+
+**What you decide.** The final name. The proposal is a starting point with its
+reasoning attached; you edit it, accept it, or ignore it.
+
+**What it changes.** A row per album: proposed name, rationale, confidence, and your
+final name, with a version. **Approving renames nothing.** Not one file moves at this
+stage — approval only marks a name as agreed, and the [rename stage](renames.md) is
+where it becomes a plan you have to confirm separately.
+
+**What it refuses.** A name containing `/ \ : * ? " < > |`, a reserved device name, or
+one that collides with an existing folder is rejected while you type and again on the
+server. Approval is refused when the evidence changed since the proposal was
+generated — the proposal is stale, and regenerating is the honest fix. Editing with a
+stale version returns a conflict and shows you the server's truth rather than
+overwriting it.
+
+## Reading the view
+
+The left pane lists albums with their state: `none`, `proposed`, `edited`,
+`approved`, `error`, or `stale`. The right pane shows the evidence the name was built
+from — date range, dominant tags, locations, counts — then the suggested name, the
+rationale, the confidence, and an editable final name.
+
+The default naming shape is predictable and sortable:
+
+```text
+YYYY-MM — Place — Event
+YYYY — Event
+Place — Event
+```
+
+## While a rename is unresolved
+
+Generating and approving proposals is blocked while an interrupted rename is
+outstanding, with `409 rename_recovery_required`. Resolve the rename first: building
+new names on top of a half-applied move is how a library becomes hard to reason
+about.
+
+Next: [renames](renames.md).