diff --git a/internal/catalogue/setting_takes.go b/internal/catalogue/setting_takes.go
index 6215bd33..0303bc31 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/setting_takes.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/setting_takes.go
@@ -70,25 +70,14 @@ func namesItsKeys(m Manifest) bool {
 // reads itself, one the file keeps for itself, or one mergeable file naming its keys beside another
 // that names none.
 func TakenSettingsProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	problems := takenSettingsProblems(m)
-	// **A module that declares a setting names the keys of every mergeable file** (ADR 0326 §3, ADR
-	// 0164 §11 and §15): only a module that declares none keeps today's form. Said where a definition
-	// is checked and registered, never where a stored one is composed: a definition stored before
-	// this record is brought into the form by its next change, not left out of a machine meanwhile.
-	if len(m.Settings) > 0 {
-		for _, r := range m.Resources {
-			how, _ := r["merge"].(string)
-			if _, said := r[TakesSettingsField]; how != "" && !said {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s declares settings, and its mergeable %v names no %s: "+
-					"a module that declares a setting names the keys each mergeable file takes, an empty list "+
-					"for none (novox/hq ADR 0326, ADR 0164 §11)", m.Module, r["id"], TakesSettingsField))
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
+	// Not yet here: refusing a module that declares a setting and owns a mergeable file naming no keys
+	// (ADR 0326 §3). betterbird is one, and the catalogue cannot name its keys before this controller
+	// runs, so that refusal follows once the catalogue does (novox/hq issue 168's follow-up).
+	return takenSettingsProblems(m)
 }
 
-// takenSettingsProblems is what TakenSettingsProblems says that a stored definition is judged by too.
+// takenSettingsProblems is every rule of ADR 0326 §2 and §4, judged where a definition is checked and
+// where a stored one is composed.
 func takenSettingsProblems(m Manifest) []string {
 	var problems []string
 	var naming, silent []string
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/setting_takes_test.go b/internal/catalogue/setting_takes_test.go
index fc59f79b..06ddc3a3 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/setting_takes_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/setting_takes_test.go
@@ -194,24 +194,3 @@ func containsText(list []string, text string) bool {
 	}
 	return false
 }
-
-func TestAModuleThatDeclaresASettingNamesItsFilesKeys(t *testing.T) {
-	// ADR 0326 §3, ADR 0164 §15: only a module that declares no settings keeps today's form. One that
-	// declares a preference and owns a silent mergeable file is refused where it is checked — and not
-	// where a stored definition is composed, so a machine does not lose it before its next change.
-	m := twoFiles(nil, nil)
-	m.Settings = map[string]SettingDeclaration{"site-name": {Kind: KindPreference, Default: "Search", Why: "a name"}}
-	problems := TakenSettingsProblems(m)
-	if len(problems) != 2 || !containsText(problems, "app names no takes-settings") ||
-		!containsText(problems, "sidecar names no takes-settings") {
-		t.Errorf("problems: %v", problems)
-	}
-	if err := JudgeSettings(m, nil, false); err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("a stored definition is composed as before, and was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	m = twoFiles([]any{"server"}, []any{})
-	m.Settings = map[string]SettingDeclaration{"site-name": {Kind: KindPreference, Default: "Search", Why: "a name"}}
-	if problems := TakenSettingsProblems(m); len(problems) != 0 {
-		t.Errorf("every mergeable file names its keys, and was refused: %v", problems)
-	}
-}