Yes. I'm assuming that is the rule about making things redirects instead, and keeping old pages in the database to avoid 404 errors from search engine results. (new junk pages with no useful content can be deleted safely). MANY deletions violate this rule.

kq

Jeroen Heijmans wrote:

Also, because much of the deletions that do occur do not comply with

the Wikipedia

policy on permanent deletion of pages (especially rule 6), I'm

sometimes confused.