[WikiEN-l] Process wonkery

[Stephen Bain]

On 9/28/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Zoney <zoney.ie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As a mergist - how do you get around the difficulties of preserving the
> > history of the content (wrt. attribution under GFDL)?
>
> Repeated detetions and undeletions. You delete the page you are moving
> the text to be merged to. Move the text to that page then undelete.
> Full process is described in how to fix copy and paste moves.

...which is not always practical, but is more likely to be when
dealing with short stubs (most of which have brief histories).

Otherwise, a manual merge can be performed leaving the merged page as
a redirect. A clear edit summary on both articles, clearly indicating
where the content was merged from/to, is sufficient. If necessary a
message on the respective talk pages can document the merge.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com