2009/1/5 WJhonson@aol.com:
<<In a message dated 1/5/2009 3:48:55 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, geniice@gmail.com writes:
Mostly because from time to time they have actually moved content from one article from another (the rest of the time you can nail them for persistently lying in edit summaries). Given the format of the mediawiki software and the GFDL it is pretty much impossible to do such merges without violating copyright>>
Could you explain a bit more why you think that merges violate copyright? Thanks Will Johnson
When you merge the wording of the GFDL requires that you preserve the history (a really really bad choice of words). Can be done close enough through a history merge but most users don't/can't do that.