diff --git a/src/ingest/adapters/index.ts b/src/ingest/adapters/index.ts
index 5abbc82..bbb3258 100644
--- a/src/ingest/adapters/index.ts
+++ b/src/ingest/adapters/index.ts
@@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ function toAdapter(spec: SourceSpec): Adapter {
     parserId: spec.parserId,
     minIntervalMs: spec.minIntervalMs ?? SIX_HOURS_MS,
     priority: spec.priority ?? 0,
+    statesNoEvents(html: string): boolean {
+      return parser.statesNoEvents?.(html) ?? false;
+    },
     parse(html: string, ctx: ParseContext): GachaEvent[] {
       // A site redesign should fail the run loudly rather than publish an empty
       // calendar, which would read as "no events" to a user.
diff --git a/src/ingest/adapters/types.ts b/src/ingest/adapters/types.ts
index bc729f4..7ea2b4c 100644
--- a/src/ingest/adapters/types.ts
+++ b/src/ingest/adapters/types.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ export interface Adapter {
   priority: number;
 
   parse(html: string, ctx: ParseContext): GachaEvent[];
+
+  /**
+   * True when the page itself states that it currently lists no events, so an
+   * empty parse is this source's real answer rather than a source that broke.
+   * Absent unless the underlying parser implements it — see
+   * `SourceParser.statesNoEvents`.
+   */
+  statesNoEvents?(html: string): boolean;
 }
 
 export const SIX_HOURS_MS = 6 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
diff --git a/src/ingest/parsers/types.ts b/src/ingest/parsers/types.ts
index 8d0843b..97bd388 100644
--- a/src/ingest/parsers/types.ts
+++ b/src/ingest/parsers/types.ts
@@ -26,5 +26,19 @@ export interface SourceParser {
    */
   canParse(html: string): boolean;
 
+  /**
+   * True when the document is one this parser understands *and* the document
+   * itself says it currently lists no events.
+   *
+   * Optional, and absent for every parser whose pages do not say so. It exists
+   * because `canParse` and a row count cannot together tell a source that broke
+   * from a game that is simply between versions: both yield nothing. A page
+   * that states its own emptiness can, and the refresh runner stores that as a
+   * real answer instead of counting it as a failure — see
+   * `scripts/refresh-sources.ts` § the parse gate. Anything less explicit than
+   * the page's own words belongs on the strict side of that gate.
+   */
+  statesNoEvents?(html: string): boolean;
+
   parse(html: string, ctx: ParseContext): GachaEvent[];
 }