Toby Bartels wrote:
All of this is why, when we change the title of
pages,
we should turn them into redirects instead of
deleting
them. I almost left out the word "should" in
the line
above, and a year ago I would have been able to do
that.
Normally I would agree with you, but in this case the
talk pages were retitled because people wanted that
phrase to stop appearing so much in Wikipedia, and
renaming the talk pages AKFD was one suggested
solution to this without having to lose the content
itself. Leaving a redirect to the renamed page would
not have solved the problem which was apparently that
there were too many pages with this title. Normally
redirects themselves don't cause any issues, so it is
better to keep them than delete them, but as the
discussions on [[Talk:AKFD/redirect]] and
[[Talk:AKFD/November 2003]] show, it was decided that
the redirects themselves were causing harm which is
why I deleted them.
Deleting redirects is a problem, but sometimes keeping
them is more of a problem. For example where it makes
it unreasonably difficult to find similarly named
articles, where the redirect might cause confusion,
the redirect is offensive or the redirect makes no
sense. There are more details and discussion of the
policy at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion]] and
[[Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy/redirects]].
Angela.
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