ah yeah, a `defer` is supposed to empty it and just link your entry to the one you deferred to; defering is essentially deleting your own and pointing to someone else's (via both `a` and `e` tags, so you can say exactly to which version you deferred to) 

 Yes, but it also appears at the bottom of the screen when I look at my own pages, and if I unwittingly click it, out of habit, then it deletes my page. Then I deferred to my own page and now there's no more page, you see. It's like a delete loop.