As a fellow en.wikt administrator, I find DCDuring's comments to be made in bad faith. The straw man about "God" is frankly absurd; he knows full well that "nigger" is broadly offensive in unmarked contexts and hurts WMF's credibility in a manner that "God" does not. And to suggest that we are "frustrating the word-search efforts of some English-language learners" by requiring them to type more letters in order to land on the entry for "nigger" is classic concern trolling.

Deleting the main page has historically had some caché. It seems like a no-brainer that if there is a relatively straightforward way to prevent this, it would be better than not preventing it. If it's too hard for you to deal with, that's disappointing, but I guess we'll live with it.