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You will then see a pop-up box telling you this:
"The question [wording of the better-worded question] already exists. Recommend that this be merged."
If you agree that you would like the 2 questions to be merged, click on "Save." Your merge request will be sent to a Community Assistant, who will make the merge if the request is indeed accurate.
Alternate Way of Requesting a Merge
Copy the URL of each of the 2 questions and paste them into an email. Send the email to: WikiAnswers @ Answers.com (be sure to remove the spaces).
What else can I help you with?
Why can you no longer ask to merge questions?
Regular members may certainly ask to have questions merged. They are encouraged to do so when they run across contributions that are asking the same question. This helps the site supervisors to maintain the integrity of WikiAnswers, and keeps regular members involved. To request questions be merged, do the following: 1. Go to one of the questions. 2. Click on Improve Question. 3. Type the question you want it to be merged with. 4. A popup will appear asking if you want to merge the questions. To request 2 locked questions be merged, simply copy the URL's of both questions and paste them into an email to Supervisor @ wikianswers.com (be sure to remove the spaces).
Does WikiAnswers send a confirmation email about a merge request to the contributor who made the request?
Not as far as I'm aware. I've merged questions many times, and not received a confirmation email.
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.
Why are some categories never accepted after request?
There may not be enough questions to justify a separate category. In most cases 150 or so questions, each distinctly different, are requested. If there are multiple questions asking the same thing, they should be merged together, so that often reduces the quantity.
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 GNU - 2?
This questions needs to be merged into 'What is GNU', but because a lower-cased alternate exists elsewhere, it can't be merged yet.
How a contributor can link similar questions coming in this Q and A site?
Similar questions can be merged - to be answered by a single contributor.
In your watchlist why are you getting questions of no value and different categories than the 3 you choose?
The question(s) you are watching may have been reworded or have been merged into another question. If the question was merged into a catch-all question designed for inappropriate questions, then your Watchlist may show some of these questions.
What about Angelina Jolie?
Supervisors: This is a Catch-all question for all questions related to Angelina Jolie that have yet to be split and/or merged with existing questions.
Can TIP Members merge questions?
Members of The Initiates Program do not have access to the merge tool. TIP members can request merges in the same way as other contributors by changing the wording of a question to match the wording of the question they wish it to be merged to. You can also ask a supervisor to merge questions for you (or your TIP Supervisor if you are a member). Merging is a supervisor-only tool.
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.
When merging questions does the question with the lower popularity get merged into the more popular question?
When a Supervisor merges questions, it generally goes this way: The less-grammatically correct question is merged into the more grammatically correct question. Or, the question that hasn't been on site very long, is merged into the question that has been here much longer. The second question (the one that is being merged) becomes an alternative wording to the first question (primary question - the one that it is merged into). Popularity, answers, alternative wordings, links, related questions, discussion pages, etc are merged together under the primary question. The truth is simply that the supervisor chooses which question to merge. They can then look to pick a different alternate as prime if they desire or even re word the prime question.
