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Who has the power to merge questions on WikiAnswers?
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.
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.
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.
How do you answer a matching Question?
Matching questions require the pairing of selections in one column to their corresponding terms or values in a second column. The "Match the terms" questions on Wikianswers cannot be answered. These questions are added to WikiAnswers to help people cheat on various online testing sites, such as NovaNet, Apex, and Penn-Foster. If you find such a question answered on the site, please advise any supervisor, who can merge it to a catch-all, or delete it where appropriate. These questions and answers are usually copyrighted material and should not be added to WikiAnswers.
What happens after you recommend to merge a question on WikiAnswers?
The request is sent to the Community Assistants who decide whether the merge is a good one or not.
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 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.
