User blog comment:Turtletrekker/Don't be afraid of red links!/@comment-150.216.63.222-20131025182409

Don't completely agree. While there are some benefits in some situations, suppose someone red-links a whole bunch of things, accross many various pages, that are later determined not to deserve a page, or red-links a bunch of common things in articles that you wouldn't make pages for anyway. Then you'd just be left with a bunch of dirty links that take you nowhere.

You'd just be highlighting how full of flaws the wiki is, or supposedly is, which would turn people away.