Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Wiki Talk/Redirect vs. deletion/reply (2)

Edit histories are preserved when pages are moved. Not sure what you mean.

At the time that bot was run, we had virtually no inbound links from external sites. There's no point in keeping clutter that:
 * Is confusing
 * Makes linking harder with Link Suggest
 * No one uses
 * Has no page history

A lot of effort has gone into detangling the mess made by TV Tropes' software and the import process. The result is that our database keeps getting smaller, and page rendering keeps getting faster. Decluttering the links and pages table helps speed on almost every level.