Last modified: 2014-07-21 10:37:32 UTC
When doing history merges, the "revision" created by the move can really get in the way of the proper history of the page.
Could you elaborate please, or give an example link?
See, for example, [[en:category:Quebec stubs]] - I needed to delete the page after the move (the second time) to prevent an old revision from confusing the history.
History merging is kind of an obscure corner case of page moving. I think the accountability in the general case is more important than making the obscure case slightly more covenant. Really I wish that someone would work further on Special:MergeHistory as a more sane approach.
