Board Thread:Moderators/@comment-112155-20160407134333/@comment-10473115-20160410081009

The Many-Angled One wrote: I had many problems with redirects when uploading images and creating pages for the fourth and the second volumes of Deadpool and the Ultimates ... Please, tell more about those problems. It could be some problem with the template which should be fixed. Copeinator123 wrote: ...it can mean there are a few redirects leading to the same image and trying to find an image in a gallery via its name can be annoying... Page move will create only one redirect, but otherwise that's true and first real argument against redirecting images. However, the effort to find redirected image from a gallery page is minimal compared to changing all links from page moves. That saved effort could be better used on splitting too long gallery pages.

Other arguments are not valid because they represent personal feelings which could not debated. If you just don't like redirects for some personal reason and want to waste your time and improve your editcount, feel free to change links to not use a redirect. But that's not a reason to delete it, just leave the redirect there unused.

I would still hope that you take a minute to think why MediaWiki defaults to leaving a redirect from a page move and right to delete it is preserved for sysops.

See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia:R, Don't delete redirects