Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-6003396-20140313011700/@comment-5264386-20140502130729

The "trail" Dai is referring to is the fact that you'll still be able to see edits prior to the conversion of the page. For instance, let's say someone created a troll page containing only racist remarks, and we converted it into a proper article. Any editor could look back to the first edit and see what was originally on the page. It doesn't make a huge difference technically speaking (unless the redirect page isn't deleted); it's more a matter of personal preference, I suppose.