On 11/20/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)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.
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Sam