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    Perfect! This is my understanding. Commented Dec 10, 2010 at 18:04
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    The ones that should be merged, I'm pretty sure would have to be merged by migrating and then merging. So I don't think we need that category; migrate them, they'll get closed as dupes, and that will alert a moderator to merge them. There's still going to be a problem with massively-duplicated answers, but... oh well. Commented Dec 11, 2010 at 18:57
  • @Aarobot right, I thought that was implied. The last question doesn't have a merge target (yet?). Updated my answer. Commented Dec 12, 2010 at 0:42
  • It was implied; what I'm basically getting at is that I don't think there's an appreciable difference between "migrated then merged" and "migrated unconditionally" from the perspective of an SO/MSO user. If it gets migrated, and it's a dupe, then the community there will handle it and it will either get deleted or merged or both. Commented Dec 12, 2010 at 0:47
  • @Aarobot not to an MSO/SO user, but to the people performing the work (SOIS and secondarily, the mods on Programmers.SE). If the questions aren't merged at the time of migration there's a significant likelihood that the questions will remain open for a long period of time. Programmers.SE does not have the community infrastructure to bat down crappy questions and duplicates with any amount of speed. The difference between the first group (migrate, then merge) and third (migrate unconditionally) is that SOIS should leave the third group up to the community to decide, but not the first. Commented Dec 12, 2010 at 0:54
  • Fair enough, I certainly agree that questions tend to stay open longer there. I don't think duplicates are as... er... controversial as off-topic or not-constructive closures, but I guess the moderators will end up having to do the merges anyway so they might as well do them in advance. Commented Dec 12, 2010 at 1:00
  • I'm for letting those three questions live. They all provide hilariousness and value, even if not exactly within the defined boundaries of the sites. Commented Dec 14, 2010 at 0:13
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    This should also be migrated: stackoverflow.com/questions/2680046/… Commented Dec 14, 2010 at 5:23