On Jun 15, 2016 10:52, "Magnus Manske" <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:54 PM Tom Morris <tfmorris(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bad merges have been mentioned a couple of times recently and I think
one of
the contexts with Ben's gene/protein work.
>
> I think there are two general issues here which could be improved:
>
> 1. Merging is too easy. Because splitting/unmerging is much harder than
merging, particularly after additional edits, the process should be biased
to mark merging more difficult.
A
technical solution could be to prevent merging of two items (or at
least, show a
warning), if one of the items links to the other.
That is already happening.
Cheers
Lydia
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