Thread:Sakaros/@comment-1998339-20180909155420/@comment-104549-20181030194909

Well, I'm not sure I'd be willing to stand on that "inactive anon" part either. I respect your attempt to glean dicta out of my perhaps-unfortunate choice of the modifying adjective "registered" in "registered user", but I rebut by pointing out that I was adjudicating only the case before me, while reserving judgment on all future cases until I had a case with those facts. But yes, orphaned redirects are always fair game, and even standard redirects are okay if you're willing to go through and change all the articles that link to the redirect so they go to the intended article.

Closed, blocked, and staff-disabled accounts are probably going to be fact-specific. I don't want to issue a general ruling without facts, especially because I can think of a case where "blocked" does not, by itself, equal "fair game" (that case being multiple accounts, where all but one are closed, but that one retains rights to articles created under all the others). Let us cross that bridge if and when we come to it.