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However, '''avoid deleting''' such redirects if: | However, '''avoid deleting''' such redirects if: | ||
# <span id="K1"/><span id="k1"/>They have a potentially useful page history. If the redirect was created by renaming a page with that name, and the page history just mentions the renaming, and for one of the reasons above you want to delete the page, copy the page history to the Talk page of the article it redirects to. The act of renaming is useful page history, and even more so if there has been discussion on the page name. | # <span id="K1"/><span id="k1"/>They have a potentially useful page history. If the redirect was created by renaming a page with that name, and the page history just mentions the renaming, and for one of the reasons above you want to delete the page, copy the page history to the Talk page of the article it redirects to. The act of renaming is useful page history, and even more so if there has been discussion on the page name. | ||
# <span id="K2"/><span id="k2"/>They would aid [http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/AccidentalLinking accidental linking] and make the creation of [[ | # <span id="K2"/><span id="k2"/>They would aid [http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/AccidentalLinking accidental linking] and make the creation of [[Help:Redirects#Resolving_duplicate_articles|duplicate articles]] less likely, whether by redirecting a plural to a singular, by redirecting a frequent misspelling to a correct spelling, by redirecting a misnomer to a correct term, by redirecting to a synonym, etc. In other words, redirects with no incoming links are ''not'' candidates for deletion ''on those grounds'' because they are of benefit to the browsing user. Some extra vigilance by editors will be required to minimize the occurrence of those frequent misspellings in the article texts because the linkified misspellings will not appear as broken links. | ||
# <span id="K3"/><span id="k3"/>They aid searches on certain terms. | # <span id="K3"/><span id="k3"/>They aid searches on certain terms. | ||
# <span id="K4"/><span id="k4"/>You risk breaking incoming or internal links by deleting the redirect. | # <span id="K4"/><span id="k4"/>You risk breaking incoming or internal links by deleting the redirect. | ||
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