added term_merge module

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+Term Merge
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+by:
+ * Max Nylin <max@articstudios.se>
+ * Oleksandr Trotsenko
+
+Description
+-----------
+When using taxonomy for free tagging purposes, it's easy to end up with
+several terms having the same meaning. This may be due to spelling errors,
+or different users simply making up synonymous terms as they go.
+
+You, as an administrator, may then want to correct such errors or unify
+synonymous terms, thereby pruning the taxonomy to a more manageable set.
+This module allows you to merge multiple terms into one, while updating
+all fields referring to those terms to refer to the replacement term instead.
+
+Currently, the module only acts on:
+ * fields of 'taxonomy term reference' type
+ * Views Taxonomy Term filter handlers
+ * Redirects
+
+It would be desirable to update other possible
+places where deleted terms are used.
+
+Integration
+-------------
+Currently module integrates with the following core and contributed modules:
+ * Redirect module (http://drupal.org/project/redirect). During term merging
+ you may set up SEO friendly redirects from the branch terms to point to the
+ trunk term
+ * Synonyms module (http://drupal.org/project/synonyms). During term merging
+ you will be able to choose a trunk term's field into which all the branch terms
+ will be added as synonyms (until cardinality limit for that field is reached).
+ * Hierarchical Select (http://drupal.org/project/hierarchical_select). If
+ Hierarchical Select module is configured to be used for working with Taxonomy,
+ its widget will be shown on the form, where you choose what terms to merge into
+ what term.
+ * Views (http://drupal.org/project/views). If the branch terms are to be
+ deleted after the merging process, you could end up having some Views filters
+ to filter on no longer existing terms. Term Merge module, while merging terms,
+ will update those filters to filter not on the branch term, but on the trunk
+ term. This way you will not have senseless filters and will not have to update
+ them manually.
+
+Requirements
+-------------
+The modules requires enabled the following modules:
+ * Taxonomy module (ships with Drupal core)
+ * Entity API (http://drupal.org/project/entity)
+
+Installation
+------------
+ * Copy the module's directory to your modules directory and activate the
+ module.