Explanation for 'cannot use the same piece of evidence for more than one criteria' Please?

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Is there a good explanation or discussion on this point

At least two unique documents showing you are recognised as either a leading talent or potential talent (see Mandatory Criteria) and at least four unique documents showing you have any two of the other necessary skills (see Optional Criteria). You cannot use the same piece of evidence for more than one criteria.

Does this mean we cannot use the same evidence in Mandatory Criteria and the same evidence in the Optional Criteria.

For example in Mandatory Criteria (MC) I want to prove this point from the visa guide

Outside of your normal day-to-day job role, you led or were a significant contributor to a substantial open source project, as evidenced from compilation of code commit summaries, repo stars or similar metrics such as download statistics, where possible.

To prove this I will share screenshots, stats and reviews of WordPress plugins that I have developed which are on the plugin WordPress plugin repository.

Now I also want to go for Optional Criteria (OC2)

  1. How do I demonstrate that I have been recognised for my work outside of my immediate occupation that contributed to the advancement of the sector?
    Evidence of contributions to an Open Source project
    All contributions (for example to an Open-Source project, GitHub, or Stack Overflow profile etc.) must demonstrate a consistent and ongoing track record of contributions to the sector.

So according to the unique document requirement I can’t use what I used in MC, the screenshots and links to my plugins and download and active install stats again for OC2?

This does not make sense to me. We should be able to use the same evidence different criteria’s shouldn’t we?

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Well, it was not a requirement in the past until they saw a trend with people reusing a lot of evidence in multiple criteria, which meant very few unique pieces of evidence. Since there are ten pieces of evidence you can provide, the guideline now states that your application needs to include a minimum of 6 unique pieces of evidence in total.

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@May

That is really strange. If someone has developed an open source product that is doing well they would obviously want to include it in Mandatory Criteria and use it to satisfy the example from Tech Nation guide

Outside of your normal day-to-day job role, you led or were a significant contributor to a substantial open source project, as evidenced from compilation of code commit summaries, repo stars or similar metrics such as download statistics, where possible.

Now due to the restriction they cannot use that again in Optional Criteria 2

Evidence of contributions to an Open Source project

So the choice is to use not use it in the Mandatory Criteria and make it weaker or find another Open Source product which you contributed to in the past over a period of time.