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@@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ Scripts follow a registration pattern:
 - **acore_characters** - Character data, inventories, progress (`data/sql/base/db_characters/`)
 - **acore_world** - Game content: creatures, items, quests, spells, loot (`data/sql/base/db_world/`)
 
-SQL updates go in `data/sql/updates/pending_*` with separate subdirectories per database until pull request is merged.
-SQL updates go in `data/sql/updates/` with separate subdirectories per database after their pull request is merged.
+- SQL updates go in `data/sql/updates/pending_*` with separate subdirectories per database until pull request is merged. Pending SQL files are assigned random names.
+- SQL updates go in `data/sql/updates/` with separate subdirectories per database after their pull request is merged.
+- SQL files outside the `data/sql/updates/pending_*` folders should never be updated.
 
 ### Module system