On 11/19/05, Craig Schiller craigbear@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, GFDL quite specifically *requires* that if an article is merged into another one, the old title has to be kept as a redirect in order to preserve the edit history.
This is what's meant by "merge and delete is not a possible vote". We can all *imagine* situations where it's the preference we would *want* to express, but that's a moot point: it's quite explicitly not a *permissible* vote under the terms of GFDL.
Is that actually, technically true? I believe the GFDL only requires us to keep the list of contributors. Keeping the history is the easiest way of doing that, but not the only.
-Matt