User blog comment:Aphrodite Sweetheart/Some issues in this February.../@comment-4074115-20140213160640/@comment-4074115-20140215190612

Sorry Rose but your analogy doesn't make any sense...

I find them useful for several reasons. First and foremost, when a page gets moved, and it's old name gets deleted, it leaves behind tons of redlinks. Leaving a redirect can give you more time to edit those pages later on with the correct name, instead of having broken links lying around for days or weeks or longer.

Secondly, say someone is looking for a page but only knows it by one name and not another (for example, someone still thinks Aisha is Layla). They may type in "Layla" and realize that it leads to a broken page. Or a new user might type Layla into an article and add another annoying redlink.

Finally, if someone outside the wiki linked to one of our pages, back when it had a different name, now those links are sent to a deleted page.

The wiki system allows redirects for a reason, and I find that they do virtually no harm, and quite a bit of good. Just because they are useless to one person does not mean they are useless to everyone.