[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias (was Howdidthis happen (comixpedia??))
Sam Korn
smoddy at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 20:45:54 UTC 2005
On 11/19/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> People who vote to merge are implicitly acknowledging that the
> information must be kept. A merge can be undone by any editor,
> resulting in the status quo ante. It follows that a merge is a keep
> by another name. it's merely an editing operation and one that can be
> (and sometimes is) performed by a non-admin editor after an AfD close.
That is still putting things into people's mouths. If someone wants a
keep, let them say so. It is a sad reflection of the
inclusionist/deletionist debate that each "side" considers a merge
vote "theirs".
--
Sam
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