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If that page is a single revision redirect with a different target, the delete-redirect right may be used to simplify the need for round-robin page moves by allowing page movers to delete the redirect, regardless of the redirect's target. This will generate a deletion log entry for the target page.
The article is preserved in the redirect page's history. Deletion by redirection might be considered vandalism in some circumstances. These redirects should be promptly reverted. Any editor can boldly redirect to another article, without copying content. If a deletion by redirection is disputed, an attempt should be made on the talk page to ...
The major reasons why deletion of redirects is harmful are: . a redirect may contain non-trivial edit history; if a redirect is reasonably old (or is the result of moving a page that has been there for quite some time), then it is possible that its deletion will break incoming links (such links coming from older revisions of Wikipedia pages, from edit summaries, from other Wikimedia projects ...
If that page is a single revision redirect with a different target, the delete-redirect right may be used to eliminate the need for round-robin page moves by allowing page movers to delete the redirect, regardless of the redirect's target. This will generate a deletion log entry for the target page.
If the target is a non-existent section of an existing page, then the redirect will take the reader to the top of the target page. Chains of redirects are not followed. If title A redirects to B, and B is itself a redirect page, then a reader navigating to A will see the display of the redirect page B (as illustrated).
If there is no "move" link at the top of the page at all, the page is most likely protected from moving. Ask for the page to be moved at the technical move request page. Click the "Move" option, and fill in the details of your move. If the page is for the main encyclopedia, choose "(Article)" from the drop-down box.
The redirect page makes it unreasonably difficult for users to locate similarly named articles via the search engine. The redirect might cause confusion. The redirect is offensive or abusive (Speedy deletion criterion G10 and G3 may apply.) The redirect constitutes self-promotion or spam. (Speedy deletion criterion G11 may apply.)
Redirect is a recommendation to keep the article's history but to blank the content and replace it with a redirect. Users who want to see the article's history destroyed should explicitly recommend Delete then Redirect. Userfy/Draftify is a recommendation to move the article to either a subpage of the author's user page or the Draft namespace ...