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

[Jack Lynch]

everybody considers a merge vote as a de-facto keep vote, because
thats what the rules say. If they think otherwise they are mistaken.

Jack (Sam Spade)

On 11/19/05, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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