Yes.
Yes, it counts under Organization on your profile.
Without knowing the original host organization, it's impossible to know what 2 groups emerged from the split. However in government, liberals and conservatives are often considered groups that split from a host organization.
To, request an alternate to be split into a separate question you can leave a message on any Supervisor or CA's Message board and tell them what question, and what alternate to split from it.
If the alternate wording is "Is Casting Crowns a Christian band?" for the question "Who is the drummer of Casting Crowns?" They need to be split because they are two different questions.
Pretty much anything you do on WikiAnswers can get you a new contribution point. This includes sending a message to someone (for a legitimate reason) and even editing your bio page. You can also ask, answer, edit, or recategorize the question, and even split an alternate from a question.
'Batch Split' is a tool on WikiAnswers only available to Supervisors, in which incorrect alternate wordings to multiple questions can be split all at one time, instead of one at a time. 'Batch' is just another word for 'Bundle', or basically, a lot of questions, which is referred to as a 'batch' of questions. 'Split' is separating an alternate wording from it's parent question, thereby creating the term 'Batch Split'.
There is currently no undo function. You would need to change the wordings of the newly-split questions to be the primary from which they were split off. Then recommend merges of them.
Rutherford. Discovered small charged nucleus of atom. Split the atom.
Historical contribution points were introduced on Mon Feb 01, 2010, when the Split Contributions feature went live on WikiAnswers.
No, there is currently no way to directly move an alternate to the Related Questions section of the answer. If the alternate is not the same as the question (just another way to word it), please split it off and then add it as a Related Question if necessary.
"Alternates" or "alternate wordings" are other ways of phrasing the same exact question on WikiAnswers. When an alternate wording is asked on the site, it redirects you to the primary wording of that question. If an alternate wording is mismatched with a primary wording from which it differs, we should "split" it out into a separate question.
What you have is a situation where the correct wording - the one that you want to create - is already an alternate to anotherquestion.You will get a message something like this:"Others have said that '[your question]' is the same as [the question that it is an alternate of]. Is this correct?"Merge - Yes, and merge the original questionSplit - No, these are different questions.Since your wording is trapped inside that "wrong" question, you want to choose "Split." Now, the question you are working on will become an alternate to the correctly spelled version you were trying to create in the first place.