In Slim's defense (imagine that, coming from me), what she appears to have actually been recommending was to remove the article *and* the merged content and rewrite any relevant text from scratch. Her full statement was actually, "Any material we want to merge can be researched and written from scratch if need be. This is no time to worry about the GFDL.".
Ah, that's always the problem with making judgements based on half a quote. Thanks for clearing that up.