Board Thread:Wiki Discussions and Support/@comment-732150-20150218154304/@comment-1251315-20150218154907

Redirects should be kept for obvious, alternate search terms. Userpage redirects, as well as those for talkpages, should be removed as they are unnecessary and serve no purpose. This should also include redirects from numbers and any redirect that is an unlikely search term.

However, just because a redirect isn't used doesn't mean it isn't useful: alternate spellings, redirects from plural to singular (and vice versa), misspellings, redirects from old arc titles and redirects to avoid unnecessary pipe tricks (eg  is pointless) should all be kept. Character redirects should be kept unconditionally and never removed from the wiki.

I should make this an opportunity to remind rollbacks that file redirects should never be left and should be suppressed. If you don't already have it activated, please activate FileUsageAuto-update in your wikia.js so that you can suppress redirects and instantly update the file name across articles.

We have to be careful about cleaning up stuff though, Special:BrowseData is essentially an utter mess that will never clear up until Wikia updates SMW to reset the cache.