On 11/7/07, Raimond Spekking raimond.spekking@gmail.com wrote:
E.g. for import of articles. de.wp uses Special:Import to import articles from different languages. After the import it is mostly necessary to move the imported article to a German article name.
The redirect is completely useless and has to be deleted. I would be glad if we could suppress the redirect at time of moving.
This strikes me as a situation where the best thing to do would be to fix Special:Import. Besides, nobody's talking about exposing this through the user interface at the moment.
To paraphrase something Brion once said, deleting redirects is normally a big "screw you" to third parties. If really nobody can really come up with any reasonable use-case for this, I would say this would best be reverted.