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 == In use == 

 Hi Obi, I'm in the middle of editing at the AR article. Can you say what the tag is for?    
 :I'm trying to complete the merge from the history article. It looked like you had stopped editing... I should be done in a hour or so.   
 :It will confuse the merge if additional edits come in. Thanks.   
 ::No, I haven't stopped yet. But which merge do you mean? We can't merge the histories, so I'm unsure what merge means here.    
 :::not merge histories, but merge changes. I'm trying to merge the changes from the history article (using a 3-way merge), because edits/improvements were made since the branch in 2008. If you could just hold off it would help a great deal - I can't do the merge while someone else is editing. cheers 
 ::::I'm right in the middle of fixing the refs; can it wait until tomorrow? Also, I don't know what you mean by merging the changes. Do you mean you want to add some text to the history section from the former history article? If so, I'm going to rewrite and re-source that entire section (the ancient world section), because the sources aren't the best available. Or have I misunderstood?    
 :::::Yes; actually it would be easier to do now, before you make more changes. I'm trying to capture the differences from the history section, since it was written, since both versions evolved separately. It seems to stem from 2008, when it was moved to a new article; shortly thereafter, you copied the content back, but the split article remained, so the two versions evolved separated. A 3-way merge allows you to captures both sets of changes. See 3-way_merge#Three-way_merge for details. But making more changes, especially re-writes, will just confuse the merge process further.   
 :::::::I wrote the text that was moved to the history article. The additions since then were poorly sourced (e.g. to websites) and I can see factual errors, so they shouldn't be copied over. This is an academic subject, and it has to be based on largely (if not entirely) academic sources. There are plenty available, so there's no reason not to use them. My aim is to update the article to make sure the writing is improved, the sources are the best available, and that the text and the sources agree. Also, there are a few issues that we don't cover at all, or barely allude to, so I'd like to add those too. I can't do it overnight, though, because it's a protracted job.    
 == VN style guide? == 

 You mention a VN style guide, that sometimes allows diacritics? If that's the case it would probably apply to all 6x of the restore Vietnamese RMs currently in. Where is this guide? Thanks.    
 :here: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Vietnamese); however the guide itself is full of contradictions; it says categories should use diacritics, then it says they shouldn't. But it does allow for the diacritics, if there isn't an established english-language common use. Another start would be modifying/cleaning up that guide.    
 ::Ah that, it seems to mainly be an essay... (    

 == FYI == 

 No action needed on your part; I just thought you might like to know about the latest development in the Nenpog Soap Opera... 

 Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Nenpog vs. Guy Macon, Doc James, and Yobol. 

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