On Jun 15, 2016 10:52, "Magnus Manske" <magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:54 PM Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Bad merges have been mentioned a couple of times recently and I think one of the contexts with Ben's gene/protein work.
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>> I think there are two general issues here which could be improved:
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>> 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.
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> 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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