Steve Bennett writes:

Heh, you redirected a number to a person, and were surprised it got deleted? I think the onus on weird redirects like that is on the person creating to justify its existence, not on the the potential deleter to search for any kind of rationale behind an apparently bizarre redirect...

As I was doing, but didn't get the chance to finish before the redirect actually got deleted. It was only 'apparently bizarre' if one didn't bother to check why it was there. As I'm not in the habit of going round redirecting numbers to people, ought not a little bell to have rung with questions of "Why this number?" and "Why this person?"?