Thomas Dalton wrote:
I pointed out that this would violate the GFDL I got a response from Slim Virgin that "This is no time to worry about the GFDL."
I've blocked people for less.
If he really did say that then a desysoping should be considered. One of the jobs of admins is dealing with copyvios - such a blatant lack of understanding of copyright suggests he is not capable of being an admin.
In Slim's defense (imagine that, coming from me), what she appears to have actually been recommending was to remove the article *and* the merged content and rewrite any relevant text from scratch. Her full statement was actually, "Any material we want to merge can be researched and written from scratch if need be. This is no time to worry about the GFDL.".