A long time ago someone suggested that links to empty (but not deleted)
articles should be shown as if the article wouldn't exist (strictly
speaking: red). If I remember correctly this would take to much time.
But now that the software and database are redesigned I wanted to remind
you about the idea. A real deletion of an article often isn't required,
and the benefits would be:
* less work for sysops
* less cause for discussion about the deletion of pages
* less cause for mistrust against sysops who delete pages
I cant see any disadvantages (besides a little more crap in some
article's history), maybe someone else can.
(In case you implement it: A little reminder that an article is empty at
the moment, but has some information in it's history would be nice.)
Kurt