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That depends on whether you are a supervisor, a signed in user, or a non-signed in user. Anyone who can edit the wording of a question can trigger a merge *request,* but only supervisors can actually perform a merge. (This is because we get lots of people who don't know how to merge, or who want to merge things that are not the same.)
How: if you can edit the question wording, change it to the same wording as the question you want it to be merged into. If you have the rights, this will ask you if you want to complete a merge. If you do not, this will trigger an email that will be sent, indicating that your username wants to merge these two questions together.
For supervisors, there is also a link that allows you to access an area to do merges another way... that should be covered in supervisor training/mentoring.
What else can I help you with?
What should you do if WikiAnswers does not merge the similar questions that you have recommended a merge for?
If you believe that two questions should be merged, but the recommendation for one did not seem to work, contact any Supervisor or Community Assistant on WikiAnswers. They can merge questions very quickly for you if they are, indeed, similar enough.
How do you merge answers on WikiAnswers?
Only Supervisors have the ability to merge questions. Non-supervisors who reword questions may trigger a merge that will be sent to a Community Assistant for review. If the two questions should be merged, the CA will merge them.
What happens if you merge two answered questions on WikiAnswers?
As a Supervisor, if you merge two answered questions on WikiAnswers, the answers will be placed one below the other on the merged question. Usually a minor edit needs to be done to remove any duplicated information.
Is it okay to copy and paste an answer from WikiAnswers to answer another WikiAnswers question when the two questions are asking exactly the same thing?
If the two questions are nearly identical, either recommend a merge, or ask a Supervisor to merge the questions for you. If the questions are not the same, but have the same answer, it is alright to copy and paste an answer as long as you wrote it. Don't take credit for an answer that you did not write.
How can you merge exactly identical questions into 1 question?
The WikiAnswers site does not allow you to have two identical questions. If there are two questions that would have an identical answer, then they should be merged. Only Supervisors have this ability.
What is the meaning of 'merge' on WikiAnswers?
It's when two (or more) questions appear to be asking the same thing. They can be 'merged' into one question so they all get answered together.
Can you merge two questions on Answers?
As a regular member, you can request that the two questions be merged and the supervisor community that handle the merge requests deal with all of them. Regular members cannot merge questions, I'm afraid. However, as a supervisor - we can merge questions to make them one-standing question.
How do you merge categories on WikiAnswers?
There is no easy way to merge categories at this time. If you think that two categories should be merged, you can write to WikiAnswers @ Answers.com (without spaces) and request it.Another possibility is that you have run into a "mirror" category, where the same category with the exact same questions shows up in two different places within our category tree. We do this sometimes to make them easier to find if they are popular in different areas.
Is it acceptable to copy an answer and paste it into another?
If the correct answer is the same for both, yes.
Can more than two questions be merged on WikiAnswers?
Many more than two questions can be merged on WikiAnswers. If the same question can be asked in dozens of ways, they all end up as alternates.
What is the best way to merge two questions on WikiAnswers when one of the answers is well researched but the other is so bad that it should be deleted and its question made into an alternate?
Send it to a supervisor. He would be able to revert the wrong answer and add it as an alternate to the correct answer.
Why are there two people next to the WikiAnswers logo?
There are two people next to the WikiAnswers logo because it shows that any person (like the two random people next to the logo) can go to WikiAnswers and ask and answer questions.
