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Adds docs/research/clear-architecture-diagrams.md, the research behind the clarity choices on the architecture page (#886). It reviews primary sources on making architecture diagrams clear to a newcomer: C4, Larkin & Simon, cognitive load theory, Mayer & Moreno, Moody's Physics of Notations and W3C's guidance on complex images. It ends with a prioritized checklist and critiques of the prototype that led to the page.

The prototype has been discarded, so the note names its path without linking to it. It links to site/architecture/ instead.

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Primary sources on making architecture diagrams clear to newcomers (C4,
Larkin & Simon, cognitive load theory, Mayer, Moody, W3C), a prioritized
checklist, and critiques of the prototype behind /architecture/ (#886).
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