“ We are making ourselves look bad for no good reason. I thought about this when we started migrating works to the Translation namespace (Catullus 16 is one of our more popular works) and I've read up on this a bit. Tim Berners-Lee himself has something to say about this. There is no need to ever delete any page. We are not going to run out of space (if anything, deletion uses more memory as the deletion action needs to be recorded too) and it doesn't obscure searches (redirects are generally omitted as standard) . ”

“ Discussion Discussion started on Wikisource Scriptorium I think we should amend our policy on redirects. Currently we delete almost all redirects, especially in the main namespace, as unneeded. This generally occurs when we move pages. However, this may be causing a lot of broken links and general linkrot; potentially causing a lot of reputational damage to Wikisource. People following a link from a forum, blog post, reddit, tweet, or whatever should reasonably expect to find content at the other end. What they will often get if they use a pre-move URL is an error message. ”

“ I am open, however, to narrowing the scope and/or instances where deletions of redirects are no longer recommended practices if that helps any. -- George Orwell III (talk) 05:21, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
I don't think it's a good idea to expect visitors to be able to understand the deletion log message. Web design frequently emphases the skittishness of your average internet user--if they can't get what they came for immediately, they'll back out and go somewhere else. ”