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In a hypothetical workflow, I’d compare two safer behaviours when a date field is unclear or empty. Stopping for clarification reduces the risk of a wrong action, but it can also create queues and interrupt a human reviewer at the least convenient moment. Preserving the original entry for review keeps the source data intact and supports auditability, especially if the ambiguity comes from regional date formats like 03/04/25. A practical middle ground could be: hold the task, store the raw input unchanged, add a reason code such as blank or ambiguous format, and route it to a human with suggested interpretations rather than a silent guess. Which behaviour would you prefer as the default when the input does not fit?