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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Karl Berry wrote:

> However, I think these can be merged:
> * Foo: (foo)bar.   GNU Foo.
> * Foo: (foo)bar.   The one and only GNU Foo.
> where only the commentary differs.

I tend to agree, since the loss of information is minimal.

> Finally, the most important (and most common) thing to merge would be
> when everything is exactly the same:
> * Foo: (foo)bar.   GNU Foo.
> * Foo: (foo)bar.   GNU Foo.

Yes.