Board Thread:Moderators/@comment-112155-20160407134333/@comment-24800939-20160410083229

I more meant from multiple page moves, i.e. an image is uploaded, used somewhere, renamed, used again, renamed, effectively leaving the image on dozens of pages under different names.

Also another reason is trying to ensure new users follow naming conventions, I don't know how new users get an idea of naming files but some of them get it from the existing files and the fewer redirects left behind the more likely I feel they will catch on faster what is and isn't an acceptable name for things.

Another thing I just realised is that this might also prevent them from showing up in the unused images as sometimes (its never been a consistent thing) it treats the redirect page as a page that the image shows up on and thus may put the image in some unfindable state unless you are looking through the upload lists.