If someone created an article but the article was then merged with another article. But the original article wasn’t as informative as the merged one and the one that was merged was better and all-would the merged article get deleted? Sorry if you can’t understand it but I can’t make it any simpler.
Harri
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When merging an article, you take the information from both, and put them into one article, so no information gets lost
In most cases, the information is put into the original article, and the person who merges the articles fills the newer article with ‘redirect’ code. This means that whenever somebody clicks on a link to that article, they are redirected to the article which now contains the information from both of the articles. Usually when I merge articles, I combine both articles into the older article, as that one already has views and is established, or into the one which clearly has a better, more searched-for title. It’s not so much about the content I don’t think._(Unless the edit history was really long and colourful, the article was featured, etc. in which case an advanced merge might be called for)_Hope that made sense…
Yup Harh017 does it the same way I do.Ideally no good info gets lost. And both titles are still clickable.
