User talk:Julian Tempest

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Akiha Tohno
This page has not been deleted, only redirected. You can still find the content that was on the page in its history. Stifle (talk) 16:28, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Akiha Tohno 'merger'
Figuring out this system has been fun. Glad its a Friday.

Anyway, I'm replying to your remark in my deletion review of Akiha Tohno. Thanks for helping me figure out how to see the page's history and pull up the previous data. I notice that it was supposedly 'merged' by Kung Fu Man following an AfD. S/He claims it was voted merged, and I can see how s/he might conclude that, but the talk page states no consensus.

I can sorta understand the reason for merging it (notability?), but I don't see that any actual merger took place; Kung Fu Panda simply redirected the article to an abbreviated page. Since almost no information from the original article was carried over, I find it hard to see how the redirect can be classified as a merger.

What controls are in place to prevent such a loss (or obfuscation) of data? Would I be out of line to transfer the information from the old page to the new page, or to reformat the List of Tsukihime Characters entirely?

Thanks!

Luke "Julian Tempest"
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 * Users are entitled to merge pages if they feel it's justified, and you can revert and/or de-merge the article if you want. See WP:NCHD if you need more assistance. Stifle (talk) 20:13, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pointers. I'll read up on the NCHD.
 * I'm hesitant to revert the article since it will probably result in a back-and-forth, ya know? And Kung Fu Panda may have a point, one which I am not yet well enough educated on Wikipedia's policies to argue.  I'll work on it, though.
 * On another note, the three image files in the original article...have they been deleted? I can't get to them. Julian Tempest (talk) 20:19, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * You could discuss the merge at the talk page.
 * The images from the article were deleted because they aren't being used. If you want to use them again, I can restore them. Stifle (talk) 22:17, 19 December 2008 (UTC)