On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 11:09 +0200, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
On 10/8/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Snow wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
[...] I don't see why the authority to merge-and-redirect should be limited to administrators. I've always found the resistance to merges puzzling.
The reason is that an admin is required to end the AfD, not that an admin is required to click on the "edit" button.
Merge-and-redirect often *does* require admin attention, because the "proper procedure" is to perform a history merge, isn't it?
Not often, no. The vast majority of the time, the edit history consists of one or two original edits and the addition of the AfD tag. Simply noting "merging in joesixpax's [[Mushi mushi]] article" when doing the merge should be sufficient, and the edit history is still on the redirect page.
Wouldn't that kill the usefulness of diffs over a period when both articles were edited?
Over that period? No. During that period? Sure, but that's as minor as a page-blank. In the long-run it does not affect the usefulness of the page's history.