Thanks everyone for your input. The issue that made me ask my question actually arose from en.wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Coix_lacryma-jobi_v… Basically, someone forked an article and various people (rightly) repointed some subtopic redirects to the new article. Then the fork got deleted, and other editors and admins quickly deleted all those redirects without looking at the page history or incoming links, creating lots of redlinks overnight. But one cannot search deleted page history, so there's no way to find out what redirects should be restored to the old article. The same problem can happen on any MediaWiki site, so I wondered if a relevant search function existed. Part of the problem lies with Twinkle, which deletes broken redirects with one click without checking page history, encouraging this kind of reckless deletion. I have raised this issue at the Twinkle repository: https://github.com/azatoth/twinkle/issues/591 Thanks for all your help. Deryck On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 18:45, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <nwilson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: