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Supervisors can merge questions on WikiAnswers. You can notify Supervisors through the Community Forum, which is checked regularly. It will help if you include the URLs for the questions you think should be merged and we'll take care of it.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoThe person who has power to merge questions on WikiAnswers are the supersvisors.
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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.
Can non-Supervisors merge questions on WikiAnswers?
No, they can't. They can, however, suggest a merge.(See the Related question for details.)
Why does WikiAnswers change 'I' to 'you' in the questions?
WikiAnswers changes 'I' to 'you' in the questions because WikiAnswers prefers second person over first person questions. It is part of the WikiAnswers Style Rules. It also makes the whole database a lot less hard to manage. Since we merge together questions that are asking the same thing, changing I to you automatically prevents us from having hundreds of thousands of other "I" questions that we would have to merge together.
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.
Can supervisors merge questions into protected questions on WikiAnswers?
If the non-protected question doesn't have an answer, then you can merge it into a protected question. However, if the non-protected question does have an answer, then it cannot be merged into a protected question.
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.
What are copied test questions to be deleted?
This question has been set up as a merge point for test questions that have been copied and pasted to WikiAnswers.
How do you batch merge in WikiAnswers?
Sadly, there is no supervisor power to batch merge questions yet. There is something similar to this, which is the split and merge feature in the 'Edit Alternates' section of any question. You can click that button to split and merge all selected alternates and move them to another question, all at once; however, the question must already be in the alternates to do so.
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.
Is there a quick way on WikiAnswers to weed out all the questions that are exactly the same?
Currently, the ways to merge duplicate questions (that differ immaterially in content) are not as quick as they could be. A feature is planned whereby you could search for specific keywords and edit (and merge) questions without loading separate pages for each question.
Are supervisors of WikiAnswers Super-poweful?
Yes, Supervisors have special powers on WikiAnswers that normal users do not have access to. Supervisor's "super-powers" include the ability to merge questions and set question alternates as the primary wording for questions. Supervisors also have the ability to block users who are making counterproductive edits to WikiAnswers.
