docs: record which sources were assessed and declined

Five games were surveyed for adapters before the scope changed. Three of those
sources are off-limits and the reasons are not visible from the code: Azur
Lane's wiki declines AI input outright, uma.moe gates its API behind a Turnstile
proof, and Fandom's robots.txt 403s — which fails closed, since a permission we
could not read is not a permission we have.

Also notes that four of the games named in the release thread have no wiki.gg
wiki at all, so nobody repeats that search.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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A source whose ToS forbids automated access does not get an adapter. Flag it and ask. A source whose ToS forbids automated access does not get an adapter. Flag it and ask.
**Sources assessed and declined** (2026-08-17), so these are not re-litigated each pass:
| Source | Verdict |
|---|---|
| `azurlane.koumakan.jp` | **Declined.** `Content-Signal: ai-input=no` — an explicit refusal of collecting content as model input, which is what capturing a fixture to read amounts to. Stronger than game8's or wiki.gg's signal. Find Azur Lane another source |
| `uma.moe` | **Declined.** Data comes from an API behind a Cloudflare Turnstile proof header; an adapter would mean defeating a deliberate access control. The `robots.txt` is permissive, but the gate is not in `robots.txt` |
| `reverse1999.fandom.com` | **Declined for now.** `robots.txt` returns 403, and an unreadable robots means "do not fetch" — a permission we could not read is not a permission we have |
| `bluearchive.wiki`, `prydwen.gg`, `gametora.com` | **Cleared, unbuilt.** `User-agent: *` allows the paths we would want. prydwen sets `Crawl-delay: 10`, far below our one-per-6h |
wiki.gg hosts (`arknights`, `endfield`) carry `Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-train=no, use=reference`
with `Allow: /`, and disallow `ClaudeBot` and other AI crawlers by name. Our fetcher is neither: it
trains nothing, and no LLM reads the page content — constraint 2 is what keeps that true, so it is
load-bearing here and not only a cost decision. Note also that Reverse: 1999, Blue Archive,
Umamusume and Nikke have **no wiki.gg wiki** — those subdomains 401.
`scripts/refresh-sources.ts` enforces all of the above in code — the 6h floor, one request, no `scripts/refresh-sources.ts` enforces all of the above in code — the 6h floor, one request, no
retries, conditional headers, robots (failing closed when `robots.txt` cannot be read). Anything retries, conditional headers, robots (failing closed when `robots.txt` cannot be read). Anything
that would make it fetch more often is a change to this section first. that would make it fetch more often is a change to this section first.