[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias (was Howdidthis happen (comixpedia??))

[Sam Korn]

On 11/19/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> People who vote to merge are implicitly acknowledging that the
> information must be kept.  A merge can be undone by any editor,
> resulting in the status quo ante.  It follows that a merge is a keep
> by another name.  it's merely an editing operation and one that can be
> (and sometimes is) performed by a non-admin editor after an AfD close.

That is still putting things into people's mouths.  If someone wants a
keep, let them say so.  It is a sad reflection of the
inclusionist/deletionist debate that each "side" considers a merge
vote "theirs".

--
Sam