Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-10473115-20160318003136/@comment-10473115-20160319131538

Redirect is helpful if it leads to best page for it, so using a redirect to fix incorrect spelling is a valid reason. They are used only for navigation and therefore can't contain any false informative. I mean that links to redirect could be wrong but redirects themselves don't contain any encyclopedic information so that's not a reason to delete them. And if redirect leads to a wrong page, a reader can easily see it from the name of that page. And that will not happen with redirects from page moves.

Of course when moving very low traffic pages, if we change all incoming links, there's almost zero benefit (but no harm either) to leave redirect but that's different with high traffic pages. When we move Hulk character page to Bruce Banner, it would most likely break some links from outside of wiki which would be harmful. Also, effort it takes to change incoming links manually would be much more helpful to our wiki if used to something else, for example fixing Special:WantedFiles, Category:Pages with broken file links, Special:DoubleRedirects. Fixing links on some obscure forum thread or User namespace is even more unnecessary, few red links from there won't do any harm. Of course any one contributes to wiki how they choose but I'm just saying that just leaving a redirect could free a lot of editing time to something else.