Node Deletion Validates Required Fields

If you have a simple content type (title and body) and both fields are required, the system still checks them before deletion. So when a user clicks on delete, the system will give an error saying "required fields are missing/not enough words/etc...".

I am not sure if this was designed into the system, but it seems kind of clunky and doesn't seem to give the expected result to the user. IMHO, the desired result would be, regardless of node content (blank or not), the user should see the "Do you really want to delete x" page. If the user clicks "cancel" the user should be redirected back to the original edit page.