[WikiEN-l] Afd nominations

Fri Sep 30 15:31:24 UTC 2005

On 9/30/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> SPUI wrote:
>
> > I'd honestly have no problem with merging into the town, as it is a
> > local landmark. It shouldn't break the GFDL even if the article is
> > deleted, as the revision history is now available to all for deleted
> > articles.
>
>
> Probably the best way, then, to work around the poisonous dysfunction
> of xFD is to make the deletion moot by merging it into the town
> article and making the name a redirect.

Alas this isn't deletion-proof. I performed a merge not so long ago only to
have it reversed out as the article was *still* deleted (and on a second go,
too, because somebody decided the keep result wasn't to his personal taste!)