On 11/20/05, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
*'''Merge''' [[Poisonous influences of fruit]] into [[Kumquat]] and delete. Good content, but it doesn't stand alone well and it's at a misleading title.
I just made that up but I can easily imagine a case where something like this would be worth doing. As for whether it's "hijacking" a vote, I'm not sure what you mean. If an article got one third "keep" votes, one third unqualified "merge" votes, and one third "delete" votes, should it be deleted or not?
"Merge and delete" is specifically prohibited as a vote. It is legally impossible.
If an article gets one third to keep, one third to merge, and one third to delete, there is no consensus. So it is kept as no consensus, but not as a keep. However, I would, as an editor, subsequently merge the former article into the latter, for exactly your reasons.
Is merging the same as keeping? No, plainly not. So the vote should not be enterpreted as such.
-- Sam