On 5/24/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Redirects should almost never be deleted -- if there was previously a link to that page, the link should remain working. That link might be in a static page, archived post, or published paper, and breaking it doesn't benefit anyone.
using a proper citation style with old-id will make you unaffected by deleting redirects, even the stupid ones.
Why on earth should we keep a page [[Jimmy wales]] that was never a legitimate redirect (opposite to [[Jimmy Donal Wales]])? Just because a blogger was unable to set the proper (and still-working) link, a bunch of redirects with no value and sense should clutter the article lists?
[[GerMany]] used to be a "proper" Wikipedia article. In 2002.
Mathias