So, once someone says a request is the same as another article by clicking the little bubble after clicking on the request, does the request get deleted?
It gets sent to this page, where boosters and admins can decide if it really is a duplicate: http://www.wikihow.com/Special:ProposedRedirects
The titles are only approved if they are exactly interchangeable, as outlined in the merge policy
I always wondered what that page was for. Now I know