On 9/16/05, Poor, Edmund W <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> wrote:
The only difference is [someone] claimed the right to stop all
merges until the end of the 5-day vote.
That is unusual. You should be able to merge during the AfD, and this should
be taken into account by the closer. You'd have to leave the AfD tag around.
Don't get phased by the rule lawyers, if what you do makes sense there
shouldn't be much of a problem.