diff --git a/api-rest.md b/api-rest.md
index 03f7166..3514a5e 100644
--- a/api-rest.md
+++ b/api-rest.md
@@ -330,11 +330,17 @@ If-None-Match](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.24) HTTP headers.
 because the behavior of PUT (overwrite) is not well defined for containers. You
 MUST use POST (as defined by LDP) to create containers alone.
 
-#### Alternative: Using SPARQL
+#### Alternative: Using SPARQL Update
 
-To write data, clients can send an HTTP PATCH request with a SPARQL payload to
+To write data, clients can send an HTTP PATCH request with a [SPARQL Update](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-update/) payload to
 the resource in question. If the resource doesn't exist, it should be created
-through an LDP POST or through a PUT.
+through an LDP POST or through a PUT first.
+Since PATCH requests only apply to a single graph, identified by the request target,
+only a subset of SPARQL Update is supported, namely:
+
+* [INSERT DATA](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-update/#insertData)
+* [DELETE DATA](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-update/#deleteData)
+* [INSERT/DELETE](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-update/#deleteInsert)
 
 For instance, to update the `title` of the container from the previous example,
 the client would have to send a DELETE statement, followed by an INSERT
@@ -359,6 +365,15 @@ RESPONSE:
 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
+**Willful violation of the SPARQL Update spec:**
+Solid purposely deviates from the SPARQL UPDATE specification.
+A WHERE clause should result in _exactly_ one result mapping.
+If there are zero matches, or if there is more than one match,
+the server MUST reply with a 409.
+This mechanism acts as a semaphore,
+ensuring that the part of the data affected by the requested update
+has not been altered in the meantime.
+
 **IMPORTANT:** There is currently no support for blank nodes and RDF lists in
 our SPARQL patches.
 
@@ -392,4 +407,4 @@ Servers SHOULD send a WAC-Allow response header on HEAD and GET, with a value li
 ```http
 WAC-Allow: user="read write append control",public="read"
 ```
-In general, the format is `user="` + user-permissions = `",public="` + public-permissions + `"`. User-permissions and public-permissions should both be space-separated lists, containing a subset of ['read', 'write', 'append', 'control']. If 'write' is present then 'append' should also be present.
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+In general, the format is `user="` + user-permissions = `",public="` + public-permissions + `"`. User-permissions and public-permissions should both be space-separated lists, containing a subset of ['read', 'write', 'append', 'control']. If 'write' is present then 'append' should also be present.