Deletion of Votes for deletion (2nd nomination)

Comment: I know my vote won't make much of an impact, but I happen to oppose the whole "cross-namespace redirect" thing and no one -- despite requests from me -- has yet to provide any verifiable evidence that such things are harmful to Wikipedia in any way, shape, or form. I only just discovered the existence of  so am citing it here
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR)

Comment: both. Even if cross-namespace redirects are a good idea, we already have the hard redirect  and AFD contains a reference to what people are looking for (which perhaps should be removed per WP:ASR). Those should be sufficient
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:AFD)

Comment: I really don't understand the reluctance to have a cross-namespace redirect in such an obvious situation.  No one has yet cited an applicable anti-cross-namespace-redirecting policy, and having these (in particular) is uncountably valuable, especially to fledgling (not necessarily new) users who have not yet learned the  shortcut
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:AFD)