The Cunctator writes:
Deprecated isn't a great idea; we want to restrict
names to ones that
don't have meaning only within a Wikipedia context; they should have
meaning outside of Wikipedia.
One would want to keep such a 'deprecated' link only if it was linked-to
from outside pages. I can see us occasionally wanting to keep a
well-known title even if it would otherwise be dropped.
On the other hand, I'm not sure this actually happens much in the real
world.
-Matt (User:Morven)