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The result was '''merge to [[Data exchange]]'''. v/r - [[User:TParis|T]][[User_talk:TParis|P]] 16:00, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

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*'''Merge or redirect''' (to [[Data exchange]]?) The phrase is used often enough (and with a standard enough, if informal, meaning not to be unduly ambiguous) to be a natural search term, and the use for data exchange of at least some of the languages concerned is verifiable (in the Wikipedia sense) and should be mentioned somewhere. But that doesn't have to be in this article. (Note: I recently deprodded the article, but more or less for the reasons above rather than any belief that the article should be kept as is.) [[User:PWilkinson|PWilkinson]] ([[User talk:PWilkinson|talk]]) 13:36, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

*'''Merge''' per PWilkinson. Seems like a good solution, particularly given the brief nature of both articles. Regards, [[User:RJHall|RJH]] ([[User_talk:RJHall|''talk'']]) 16:45, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

As of the many supporters of ''merge'', I've gone ahead and rewritten a section ong Data exchange languages in the [[Data exchange]] article. Any objects to replacing the existing [[Data exchange language]] article with a redirect? --[[User:Chire|Chire]] ([[User talk:Chire|talk]]) 11:56, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

:Looks good - so far as I am concerned, go ahead. [[User:PWilkinson|PWilkinson]] ([[User talk:PWilkinson|talk]]) 00:13, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

*'''Merge''' as above [[User:Stuartyeates|Stuartyeates]] ([[User talk:Stuartyeates|talk]]) 05:47, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

: Ok, I've gone ahead and put the redirect in place, thus essentially closing this AfD with a result of "merge". I'm not sure from the instructions how to completely / properly close this AfD though. --[[User:Chire|Chire]] ([[User talk:Chire|talk]]) 07:29, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

: Side note: I did not merge the article, but actually rewrite a new section covering the same topic for the existing article. As such, this actually isn't a merge, but a '''redirect''', is that correct? So I guess the "Afd-merge from" template actually is/was inappropriate... I merged the topic, not the contents. --[[User:Chire|Chire]] ([[User talk:Chire|talk]]) 07:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

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