on merging pages, and allowing users to see sources of older versions of pages

1.  please allow regular users  to see the sources of older versions of pages, 
so they can extract usefull things out of them, and not have to recreate 
them.


2.
Merging of pages should be reserved to misspellings and capitalization 
disagreements., and should be done so with making a backup of the old one, 
especially if there is content that is not to be preserved

old:page1
old:page2



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"your brain" could have just had its contents copied to "software guidelines"  


This would shut me up mightily, as i would be able to protect my own content, 
without having to recreate it every time a moderator merges some pages 
because they have a pregidous against a certain way of viewing content.

Moderators are given higher power, and should be held to a higher 
responsibility

(google said it was spelled fine, kmail says it's not) 


I am specifically really irritated with the state of the software development 
page and "your brain"