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A document should only reference documents that are not less stable than itself.
This controls the probability of changes to a document introduced by changes to document it references.
If a document references documents that are more likely to change and therefore are less stable, there is a great chance that the information in this document also needs to be updated. If not, the reference to the other documents is probably not relevant and may be removed.
Note that navigation links are excepted from this principle.