This again! The problems of applying a categorisation developed in sport climbing to trad...
Twid Turner describes his ascent "no top-roping". I'm presuming this is his way of saying abseil inspection - checking gear, holds brushed and felt, the odd move tried on a locked-off descender - the commonest style for hard trad. ascents 1970s to 90s inclusive. Very different to an onsight but Twid is not the only person to think superior to full-on headpointing. This would have been described as "with prior inspection" at the time. Are we happy this style is contained in our "worked" and "flashed" categories?
Yes, it’s ‘worked’ in my view. Otherwise you end up splitting into infinitesimal categories. Cleaned but didn’t try the moves. Headpoint but not linked. Headpoint but top roped once. Flash but with a different sequence from what your mate showed you. The style can be clarified in the notes section.
Agree with tdg, this is "worked" with the definitions used elsewhere on ch. Flash is reserved for prior knowledge but no abseil inspection, as this can too easily blur into practice imo (felt the holds, felt some positions etc)
I don't like it, but I think it's a fairly common practice now (i.e. feeling holds from a ladder and calling it a flash) so I think we have to move with the times somewhat. Feels kinda awkward if there's stuff getting claimed as a flash, then we have to make some judgement that it isn't a flash under a different definition.
I guess this isn't so different to the rest of this discussion, but in the former case it feels more like trying touse consistent, modern terminology for old ascents.