On 11/19/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
AfD has nothing to do with merging, though, except
that it's often
recommended as part of a keep vote for something to do with the article
after its AfD listing is finished. Anyone can merge an article any time
without going to AfD to get "permission" about it. I've merged plenty of
articles myself that way.
The logical conclusion of this is that merge votes are actually votes
to keep. That is not true. Neither are they votes to delete. They
are votes to merge, and neither side may claim them as their own.
If we have to have sides, which it seems we do.
--
Sam