Thread:JustinDaOne/@comment-1063722-20130912212621/@comment-1063722-20130913001415

I really don't understand why redirects should be deleted. They aren't counted as mainspace pages on Special:Statistics or Special:WikiStats, or anywhere else I can find. Besides, I don't see how article count is a justification for deleting pages. As for making searching limited, I don't think that is the case at all.

I find redirects very useful in helping people get to where they were looking for. They are meant to help searches, not limit them. If a redirect makes a reasonable amount of sense, I think we should keep it. I'm sure other users find them helpful as well. I have never run into a situation where someone deleted all the redirects on the entire wiki, so I'm not sure how to proceed. These redirects were good faith edits meant to help the wiki. I'm not sure "cleaning them out" is the answer.

Looking at the 100 or so redirects from Special:WantedPages that I restored so the links could be fixed, many of them we created by regular contributors to this wiki. They weren't spam, vandalism, offensive, or nonsense. So I think they should stay.

Wikipedia has a great article that explains how redircts are useful, when to have them, and when not to have them. It explains it better than I can. Cheers