Thread:Dirtytabs/@comment-1738746-20170527073736/@comment-1738746-20170528041121

They can leave a redirect if the user chooses to do so, and in the past this has been heavily abused to the point where nearly half our mainspace articles are just redirects, and almost 2000 file pages are redirects as well which lead to recent issues of triple redirects causing broken links and images on pages.