Thread:PedroM/@comment-20302766-20130501211041

Hello! I just wanted to drop a line about the edit you made to the Help:Exporting pages page.

I get what you're saying about the edit histories when you merge a page but in some cases that's what people want to do and is the best course in certain situations. For example when I was recently merging two wikis I had quite a lot of pages that were mirrored on both wikis (often with slightly different content) - I wanted to preserve the content and the edit history to still credit the writers who contributed and the only way to really do that is to merge the two pages. That might not lead to the neatest edit history but in that case I think it's the only way to do it.

Perhaps we could leave the two options I had there before but leave a stronger worded warning for people about why to consider carefully before proceeding? 