On 12/11/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:
<snip>
a) Advise admins to always perform the merge when closing, if at all
possible. This could mean just cut-and-pasting the text and slapping a
cleanup tag on it, but at least the merge itself would get done.
No, this is unacceptable - a text dump, even from another article, is
horrible, borderline vandalism. Have you ever seen the results of something
like that? Article quality is more important than making AfD closings easy
and mechanical. If anything, the onus should be on the people voting
merge... the closing admin could drop a note to the people voting "merge"
(after all, these people should know enough about the topic to carry out the
merge).
b) Suggest that busy admins just redirect the page to be merged and put
a notice on the talk page of the target page with a
link to the text to
be merged. We could even make a special template for this. This will
only take care of one half of "merge and redirect", but half done is
better than nothing at all.
c) Make a new "afdmerge" template (or templates), for use in cases where
the decision to merge has already been reached on AfD. This template
would state that consensus has already been reached and would strongly
recommend that anyone having the time to carry out the merge go ahead
and do it.
None of these are, of course, mutually exclusive. If anyone can suggest
other possible approaches, please do.
--
Ilmari Karonen
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