... because all it did was remove a red link to a currently-nonexistent work page. Quoting from All The Tropes:How to Write An Example: "Red links to other works are okay."
On All The Tropes, the fix for a redlink to a work is not to delete the redlink; the fix is to write a page for the work. If you remove a redlink, we'd just have to put it back when somebody writes the work page.
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