Don't delete redirects: Difference between revisions

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#* External parties could still link to that redirect (books, blogs, articles, archives, forums, flickr, emails etc.)

#* The redirects could be used in edit summaries or log action summaries (both on the local wiki and on other wikis).

#* Search suggestions include redirects. The creation of duplicate articles can be (partially) prevented if (an) alternative title(s) exists as a redirect. The fact that the redirect was created or that the article used to have a different name is itself aaat proofferent thattitle, oneyou orshould morea personscreate werea lookingredirect forfrom the articleold undertitle to the namenew fromone the''on redirectCommons'' (or it won't work).

#**See [[:nl:Wikipedia:Wet van Ellywa|Law of Ellywa]] (Dutch).

#* The redirects could've been bookmarked in people's browsers, shared through social networks, or included in link lists.

#* (Templates) The redirect could be commonly used with <code>subst:</code>e direct HTTP URL will still return 404 ([[phab:T37721|T37721]]).</small>

## For duplicate files:

##* Files may not have any local or global usage, nor local links to it. But just like in the points above, there can be links from anywhere (talk pages, Phabricator tasks, bookmarks etc.). When someone visits a link to a file that ferent title, you should a create a redirect from the old title to the new one ''on Commons'' (or it won't work).

## For other files: because [[phab:T17842#205878|Brion will desysop you]], "''it's extremely user-hostile and makes the project less useful''".