diff --git a/src/review/content-lane/source-evidence.ts b/src/review/content-lane/source-evidence.ts
index 8f03b4cc18..2f2aaf0b32 100644
--- a/src/review/content-lane/source-evidence.ts
+++ b/src/review/content-lane/source-evidence.ts
@@ -162,7 +162,23 @@ function parseSimpleFrontmatter(source: string): Record<string, string> {
         i += 1;
       }
       fields[key] = block.join(inline.startsWith(">") ? " " : "\n").trim();
-    } else if (inline !== "") {
+    } else if (inline === "") {
+      // Block/flow sequence (or nested map) on the following indented lines: gather each `- item` so a
+      // scalar-only field authored as a YAML sequence is still captured, matching duplicates.ts's parser
+      // (#8016; this branch existed only there, so such a field was invisible to the source-evidence gate).
+      const items: string[] = [];
+      // `lines[i]` is bounded by the `i < lines.length` loop guard; the `?? ""` is an unreachable
+      // noUncheckedIndexedAccess fallback (same guard as the block-scalar loop above).
+      /* v8 ignore next */
+      while (i < lines.length && /^\s/.test(lines[i] ?? "") && (lines[i] ?? "").trim() !== "") {
+        // `lines[i]` reuses the same in-bounds index already validated by `/^\s/.test` above; `?? ""`
+        // cannot fire (unreachable noUncheckedIndexedAccess fallback).
+        /* v8 ignore next */
+        items.push((lines[i] ?? "").replace(/^\s*-\s*/, "").trim());
+        i += 1;
+      }
+      fields[key] = items.join(", ");
+    } else {
       fields[key] = unquoteYamlScalar(inline);
     }
   }
diff --git a/test/unit/content-lane-source-evidence.test.ts b/test/unit/content-lane-source-evidence.test.ts
index 91c55d36dc..5738706730 100644
--- a/test/unit/content-lane-source-evidence.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/content-lane-source-evidence.test.ts
@@ -89,6 +89,17 @@ describe("checkSubmittedSourceEvidence", () => {
     expect(report.status).toBe("failed");
   });
 
+  it("fetch-verifies a scalar-only source authored as a YAML sequence, not just a scalar (#8016)", async () => {
+    // documentationUrl is a scalar-only field (NOT in the list-field set that listSourceUrlValues rescues),
+    // so before the ported sequence branch this URL was dropped by the parser and the gate could never
+    // verify it. It must now be captured and fetch-checked exactly like a scalar value.
+    const url = "https://docs.acme.example/seq-guide";
+    const src = ["---", "documentationUrl:", `  - ${url}`, "---", "", "body"].join("\n");
+    const report = await checkSubmittedSourceEvidence(src, fakeFetch({ [url]: 200 }));
+    expect(report.urls.map((u) => u.url)).toContain(url);
+    expect(report.status).toBe("passed");
+  });
+
   it("is retryable (not hard) on a 403/429/5xx canonical source", async () => {
     const src = mdx({ githubUrl: "https://github.com/acme/x" });
     const report = await checkSubmittedSourceEvidence(src, fakeFetch({ "https://github.com/acme/x": 403 }));
@@ -312,6 +323,18 @@ describe("extractSubmittedSourceUrls — frontmatter parsing edge cases", () =>
     );
   });
 
+  it("captures a scalar-only source field authored as a YAML block sequence (#8016)", () => {
+    // A scalar field (documentationUrl) written as a sequence was silently dropped here — the sequence
+    // branch existed only in duplicates.ts — so the URL never reached the fetch-reachability gate.
+    // documentationUrl is NOT a list field, so listSourceUrlValues does not rescue it; only the ported
+    // parser branch captures it.
+    const src = ["---", "documentationUrl:", "  - https://docs.acme.example/guide", "---", "", "body"].join("\n");
+    const urls = extractSubmittedSourceUrls(src);
+    expect(urls.map((u) => `${u.field}:${u.url}`)).toContain(
+      "documentationUrl:https://docs.acme.example/guide",
+    );
+  });
+
   it("does not surface any block-scalar header on a list field as a bogus URL (both indicator orders)", () => {
     // `retrievalSources` is a list field; a block-scalar header is not a URL. The old guard only skipped the bare
     // `|`/`>`, so `|-` leaked as the literal url "|-". YAML allows chomping and the indentation digit in EITHER