Update from code changes: document PENDING EVIDENCE takedown status

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Summary

Add the new PENDING EVIDENCE takedown status to the Takedowns concept page and the How-It-Works Takedown page.

Changes

• concepts/takedowns.mdx — list PENDING EVIDENCE under Alternative Outcomes with its email/phone-number scope and 21-day auto-cancel behavior.
• getting-started/how-it-works/takedown.mdx — same addition, with slightly more detail on the pause semantics (no retractions, provider emails, or automations while in this state) and the daily auto-cancel job.

Context

Follows chainpatrol/chainpatrol-web#7044, which introduced PENDING_EVIDENCE for email and phone-number takedowns. The external /takedowns/list takedownStatus enum was intentionally not updated, so the API reference is unchanged.

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Note

Low Risk
Documentation-only updates to takedown lifecycle copy and meta descriptions; no runtime or API behavior changes in this repo.

Overview
Documentation now reflects the PENDING EVIDENCE takedown status introduced in product code, on both the Takedowns concept page and the How it works — Takedown page.

Under Alternative Outcomes, each page adds PENDING EVIDENCE: the takedown pauses while ChainPatrol waits on externally supplied evidence; it applies only to email and phone-number assets; while in this state, retractions, provider outreach, and automations do not run (the how-it-works page also notes staff can move takedowns in or out of this state from any other status). Takedowns left in PENDING EVIDENCE for more than 21 days are auto-canceled by a daily job with an insufficient-evidence note.

Both files also get updated frontmatter descriptions for clearer SEO/summary text. No API reference changes are included in this diff.

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