Re: creative commons vs gfdl

Dan Marshall wrote:

> What's the policy for combining a mature article with a less mature 
> one? For example, merging two articles on the same subject but with 
> slightly different names (or captilization)? The person who notices 
> the duplication might not have enough time to completely merge the two 
> articles seamlessly. Just cutting and pasting the smaller article onto 
> the bigger article is ugly. And completely replacing the smaller 
> article seems a bit preemptive - there might be information in the 
> smaller article that the larger article lacks.

I think the best job of merging should be done at the time of merging, 
though quickly merged articles are only ugly, not useless so it could be 
left for editing later as long as you the editor makes sure he/she 
returns tp finish the job. Thats the policy I use

---tc