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Don't say "think", restructure important note about dupes 

Signed-off-by: Nic Cope <nicc@rk0n.org>
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@ -672,9 +672,9 @@ A provider uses the
{{<hover label="creation" line="7">}}crossplane.io/external-name{{</hover>}}
annotation to lookup a managed resource in an external system.
If the provider can't find a managed resource in an external system, it thinks
the resource doesn't exist. When the provider thinks a resource doesn't exist
it creates the resource.
The provider looks up the resource in the external system to determine if it
exists, and if it matches the managed resource's desired state. If the provider
can't find the resource, it creates it.
Some external systems don't let a provider specify a resource's name when the
provider creates it. Instead the external system generates an nondeterministic
@ -688,15 +688,21 @@ A provider can't guarantee that it can save the annotation. The provider could
restart or lose network connectivity between creating the resource and saving
the annotation.
{{<hint "important">}}
Anytime an external system generates a resource's name there is a risk the
provider could leak the resource.
{{</hint>}}
A provider can detect that it might have leaked a resource. If the provider
thinks it might have leaked a resource, it stops reconciling it until you tell
the provider it's safe to proceed.
{{<hint "important">}}
Anytime an external system generates a resource's name there is a risk the
provider could leak the resource.
The safest thing for a provider to do when it detects that it might have leaked
a resource is to stop and wait for human intervention.
This ensures the provider doesn't create duplicates of the leaked resource.
Duplicate resources can be costly and dangerous.
{{</hint>}}
When a provider thinks it might have leaked a resource it creates a `cannot
determine creation result` event associated with the managed resource. Use
`kubectl describe` to see the event.
@ -731,14 +737,6 @@ resource's annotations at the same time. If the provider couldn't update the
creation annotations after it created the resource, it also couldn't update the
`crossplane.io/external-name` annotation.
{{<hint "important">}}
The safest thing for a provider to do when it detects that it might have leaked
a resource is to stop and wait for human intervention.
This ensures the provider doesn't create duplicates of the leaked resource.
Duplicate resources can be costly and dangerous.
{{</hint>}}
{{<hint "tip">}}
If a resource has a `cannot determine creation result` error, inspect the
external system.