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

[Matt Brown]

On 11/19/05, Craig Schiller <craigbear at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Is that actually, technically true?  I believe the GFDL only requires
us to keep the list of contributors.  Keeping the history is the
easiest way of doing that, but not the only.

-Matt