[WikiEN-l] Process wonkery

[Zoney]

On 28/09/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> geni
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>

Yes - as you say, specifically for fixing copy and paste moves - I'm
familiar with executing this process (oh what fun!). In my experience,
merging content usually means combining two disparate articles (e.g. one
major article and one stub article). Maybe history merge is still
appropriate (it'd sure be confusing to look through though) but it certainly
isn't the approach usually taken. Usually the content from the smaller stub
article is just copy-pasted into the main one.

Zoney

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