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 ## The decision
 
-Each Use Case (a subcategory, or a flat section) lists at most its Obvious Choices — capped at 3 (provisional, to be reviewed after the prune), including at most one marked Challenger. Admission is by maintainer editorial judgment, informed primarily by PyPI download counts rather than GitHub stars, and stated as final. Once a Use Case is at cap, the only way in is Displacement: the PR names the entry it replaces and argues the newcomer does that job better. Use Cases are defined by the list's existing structure; an entry PR can never create the subcategory it needs. Standard-library entries hold a slot only where the stdlib module is itself the obvious choice. The existing stock gets the same test retroactively: a staged, worst-first prune (per-section sweep commits), with removed entries deleted outright — git history is the archive. Resources sections (Newsletters, Podcasts, Websites) are out of scope for now.
+Each Use Case (a subcategory, or a flat section) lists at most its Obvious Choices — up to 3, plus up to 2 marked Challengers, hard maximum 5 (numbers provisional, to be reviewed after the prune). Admission is by maintainer editorial judgment, informed primarily by PyPI download counts rather than GitHub stars, and stated as final. Once a Use Case is at cap, the only way in is Displacement: the PR names the entry it replaces and argues the newcomer does that job better. Use Cases are defined by the list's existing structure; an entry PR can never create the subcategory it needs. Standard-library entries hold a slot only where the stdlib module is itself the obvious choice. The existing stock gets the same test retroactively: a staged, worst-first prune (per-section sweep commits), with removed entries deleted outright — git history is the archive. Resources sections (Newsletters, Podcasts, Websites) are out of scope for now.
 
 ## Considered options