[WikiEN-l] Interpreting merge votes (was Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias)

[Craig Schiller]

On 11/19/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

> >Merge and delete is not a possible vote. People should not have to
> >vote in such a specific way to prevent vote-hijacking.
> *'''Merge''' [[Poisonous influences of fruit]] into [[Kumquat]] and
> delete. Good content, but it doesn't stand alone well and it's at a
> misleading title.

Actually, GFDL quite specifically *requires* that if an article is
merged into another one, the old title has to be kept as a redirect in
order to preserve the edit history.

This is what's meant by "merge and delete is not a possible vote". We
can all *imagine* situations where it's the preference we would *want*
to express, but that's a moot point: it's quite explicitly not a
*permissible* vote under the terms of GFDL.

Craig