Deletion of Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand

Comment: per others and per . It is no more trouble to "watch out for undiscussed article resurrections" from blue-links than from red-links, and it is easier to revert a redirect than to delete an article recreation. Also, no one is forcing anyone to go through "the trouble of merging", this can be done by interested editors at their leisure following a redirect closure. But deleting the histories makes merging that much more difficult—interested editors with sources might wish to use the words that previous editors had written and use the sources to back them up, rather than paraphrasing the sources themselves
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:EPISODE)