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Thomas Dalton wrote:
Redirect ARE easy to delete. But allready with Wikipedias with under 50.000 articles you have some/many unexperienced admistrators who leave these links behind. Besides you said that leaving these redirects can be usefull. Can it? Is it realy good that when you click a link you get an article that is deleted (moving to user space is not an alternative to deletion, it is being done only for article that admin wants to delete, or articles that were voted for deletion).
You may be right... they aren't useful very often, and your point about inexperienced admins is a good one...
The redirects are always useful -- they allow links to the old title to continue to function.
Removing them without a very good reason is saying "hello, everyone using or linking to my site, I HATE YOU! I WANT TO HURT YOU! I DON'T CARE IF YOU CAN FIND ANYTHING ON MY SITE! I HOPE YOU DIE!"
That's not being a good web citizen.
Leave the redirects in place when moving pages, ALWAYS. Removing them is vandalism.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)