On 9/17/05, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Ed Poor wrote:
Can users simply: (1) Tag any article as "unmergeable" for a five-day period, to (2) Force a vote on whether it should be kept or deleted?
You are quite correct. I've removed ", merge" from [[template:vfd]]. Whoever put it there was on crack.
Thanks for doing that. I was a little surprised today when I discovered that my attempt to boldly forge a compromise over a disputed deletion, by merging [[Harry Potter trolling]] to [[Internet troll]], got reverted
- fortunately, in a polite and professional manner - on the grounds that
this kind of resolution is not allowed while the discussion is underway.
Oddly enough, I merged the *entire contents* of that article into Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince a few days ago, with barely a squeak of complaint. I've given clear instructions on the talk page of the Half Blood Prince article to the effect that the merge is entirely reversible and subject to acceptance by consensus, but after an initial revert (which someone restored) it has remained in place. Of course it'll have to be unmerged if the second AfD ends with a delete result.