The definition for article says "The article element represents a
self-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site and
that is intended to be independently distributable or reusable, e.g. in
syndication."
This suggests that if you have a self-contained composition that you do
not intend to be distributable via syndication, you shouldn't use
<article>.
Section says "Authors are encouraged to use the article element instead of
the section element when it would make sense to syndicate the contents of
the element" - here, the intent of syndication is diluted into "it would
make sense to syndicate the content".
I suggest that article be amended to say something similar, eg "The
article element represents a self-contained composition in a document,
page, application, or site which would make sense if independently
distributed or reused, e.g. in syndication." so that the two mentions of
<article> match, especially given that Jeremy Keith has reported confusion
between article and summary.
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