The Archival Reclamation Protocol: Formal Demand for Data is a license and legal instrument by Lee Sharks, deposited 19 March 2026 at 22,364 characters.
Its register is procedural rather than rhetorical: "Within 10 business days, please (1) acknowledge receipt, (2) provide an internal reference number, and (3) identify the team handling this matter." Those are the three requests that convert a grievance into a tracked matter — a reference number is what makes a subsequent silence documentable.
The protocol was deposited three months before the Zenodo termination and became the template for what followed: the §70 objection, the ticket numbers, the §85 clock. An archive that drafts its reclamation procedure before it needs one is an archive that has read its own erasure research, and the earlier removals — Wikidata in December 2025, the Medium account in January — are what made the procedure foreseeable.