Book wrote: ↑October 24th, 2021, 1:03 pm
Sure -- and I think you can be deputized to do it without any problems.
Done!
So I see! Let me clarify what I meant, since the meaning changed quite a bit in light of GUYTU6J's follow-up comments above.
It's perfectly possible for non-admins to remove delete tags such as those, when they're causing problems and their presence is no longer appropriate.
However, especially given GUYTU6J's response, I'd say that it probably
is a good idea to delete most or all of those redirects. There's no point in having a redirect cluttering things up, unless there's a non-zero probability that someone will type in the redirect's name and want to be directed to the page that the redirect points to. So in these cases, it probably doesn't make too much sense to remove the deletion tag.
I think that GUYTU6J's judgment is generally good on these -- long never-used names pointing to short commonly-used names are just clutter. I'll go ahead and review these individually, and will delete whatever redirects still seem to be unnecessary. (So, no need to restore the deletion tags, just be patient and the redirects will probably disappear.)
Anyone with concerns about this, please post them here if possible! It's pretty time-consuming to dig through all the relevant talk pages on the LifeWiki, and it's easy for me to miss things when I'm trying to do this kind of bulk clean-up job.