https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61858

--- Comment #6 from Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to James Forrester from comment #3)
> On this one I'm minded to WONTFIX, but I could be argued around. What are
> the reasons for letting people remove content they can't see with select-all?

As WhatamIdoing says, redirecting, for example for merging. This may be
achieved using some special scenario. (And hey, blanking must point at
something special in any case.)

Copying here the description from bug 67200 which was closed as dupe:

Deleting the text from the article and converting it to a redirect page still
leaves all the categories in it, as well as Other Stuff such as magic words and
invisible templates.

This is a regression in comparison to the source editor, where the editor could
just delete everything and be sure that categories, magic words, invisible
templates and everything else is gone.

Just redirecting an article shouldn't necessarily remove everything, because
it's actually possible that the editor wants to leave the article in a
category. Some projects, including enwiki, have categories, templates etc. in
redirect pages. But probably some kind of a warning should be shown.

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