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

[Bryan Derksen]

Mark Gallagher wrote:

> It's not accurate to say that merge == keep *or* that merge == delete. 
> Merge == merge.  Fortunately, it's usually the people pushing an 
> "inclusionist" or "deletionist" view that take the "merges should be 
> reinterpreted" line, and not the closing admins.

They do have to interpret it one way or the other, though, since except 
in the rare case of history merges it comes down to a binary decision of 
either pressing the "delete" link or _not_ pressing the "delete" link. 
Merge votes push the result one way or the other, don't they?

Perhaps we're talking at cross-purposes through differing 
interpretations of exactly what is meant by "keeping" an article or 
"deleting" it? It seems like a very black-and-white situation to me.