[WikiEN-l] To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/8/2009 12:06:36 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com writes:

I am  sorry? Who encouraged merging? There is no consensus behind that. Merge
was  proposed as a compromise to the mass deletion/inclusion war but it  was
never commonly accepted. If it was I want to see the evidence of  that
consensus.>>


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I am not speaking of *your* personal war over fiction.
I am speaking of the broader issue of the merging of *anything*  in-project.
 
We, as a community, encourage the merging of stubs.  That has been the  case 
since before I even started editing five years back.  I myself have  merged 
some articles in the past, although only a handful.
 
It would be sadistic if, the idea that merging, which in and of itself, is  a 
seemingly innocuous edit, would carry as-well the *hidden hammer* of 
copyright  infringement.  Wouldn't it?
 
Here's how you merge... oh you've done it?  Well good, now I can  clobber the 
hell out of you.
That's not the spirit of the project.  Therefore there is a  contradiction 
somewhere in the assumptions.
 
Will Johnson
 
 
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