[Wikipedia-l] Sysop status

[koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com]

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.