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A near-miss of the [?] marker

Warning unknown.marker Automatic fix

This is an exact recognized unknown marker, so replacing only the marker is mechanically safe.

Convention: A lyric you can't make out is [?].

Example

Flagged by this rule
[Verse]
I heard (?)

In the workbench this reads: Use [?] for an incomprehensible lyric.

Accepted by this rule
[Verse]
I heard [?]

The fix

In the workbench this finding carries one control, labelled Replace with [?]. The fix is classified as safe, so pressing it applies the edit directly — one press, one undo step.

The convention and its limits

This check detects the pattern shown above. An accepted example passes this check; it is not a review of the whole transcription.

Source

The source cited by this check:

Unknown lyric marker (opens in a new tab) verified Use [?] for unknown lyrics
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