On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 21:43 +0100, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
You know what I find annoying? People who 'vote' to merge or delete on xFD. If you think something is mergeable, deletion shouldn't even enter your mind. Also, merging keeps information, deletion destroys it, they're two entirely different beasts. Votes like that are entirely meaningless, but especially annoying when the delete part is bolded and put in front. Why can't people just say '''Merge''' to article X. Deletion can be discussed again if a merge fails. Same goes for cleanup. Just because it's not up to scratch now, doesn't mean an article should be deleted immediately...
I've done that (delete or merge) a few times, with the best of intentions. For me, it means "in my opinion, Wikipedia's best interests are served by deleting this because [...]. However, if there is insufficient support for that, then I would support [partial] merging into [...] as a poor alternative, because I think that is better than the present state of affairs."
Ah, ranting relieves the soul... :)
So true!