[WikiEN-l] Merge vs. Keep/Delete

Tony Sidaway f.crdfa at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 13:16:00 UTC 2005


On 10/8/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Merge-and-redirect often *does* require admin attention, because the
> "proper procedure" is to perform a history merge, isn't it?
>


Absolutely not. A history merge should be limited to situations such as
those where a fork has been created. A proper merge is one that would permit
the merge to be reversed at some time in the future, and this would require
the use of a redirect, not a history merge.



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