diff --git a/plugin-designs/gospel-resources/data-tables.vue b/plugin-designs/gospel-resources/data-tables.vue
index 3d9d3900e..505ccf839 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/gospel-resources/data-tables.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/gospel-resources/data-tables.vue
@@ -228,7 +228,16 @@ useShadowStyles(
 <template>
   <!-- The blanket dir="ltr" is gone: this profile's chrome is translated now, so Arabic gets
        the RTL layout it should have. What stays LTR is each block of English prose, marked
-       where it sits — the same split the map profile already uses. -->
+       where it sits — the same split the map profile already uses.
+       ★ CORRECTION, measured 2026-09-25. The previous commit recorded "in RTL the leftmost
+       data column clips against the edge" as known debt. That was wrong, and it was wrong in
+       the way that wastes someone else's afternoon: I read a screenshot instead of measuring.
+       Counting cells that fall outside the table holder, en and ar are IDENTICAL — 13 of 20
+       columns off-screen in both, scrollWidth 3146 against clientWidth 1400 either way. A
+       twenty-column table is simply wider than 1,400px, and RTL mirrors which edge the
+       overflow sits on. There is no RTL clipping bug to chase. Whether twenty columns is the
+       right design for a 1,400px screen is a real question, but it is a design question and
+       it is the same question in English. -->
   <div class="gt" :class="{ 'is-dark': isDark }">
     <h2 class="gt-h">{{ tr('gospel.tables.title') }}</h2>
     <p class="gt-sub" dir="ltr">