[WikiEN-l] Redlinks or redirects?

Thu Jun 29 18:46:03 UTC 2006

At 10:39 AM 6/29/2006, Steve Bennett wrote:
>On 6/29/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
> > We need to have a discussion on
> > which books ought to have articles. Some criteria regarding notability.
>
>Something like that exists, a print run of 5000 figures in there somewhere.

Now that's just stupid. The local grocery store's weekly flyer has a 
higher print run than that.

>I'm leaning more and more towards the attitude of people who equate
>notability with "the ability to write a meaningful article based on
>verifiable and reputable secondary sources". At the end of the day, if
>we have meaningful, verifiable stuff to say about insignificant
>topics, Wikipedia is not harmed to any great extent by saying it.

Right -- and with books, this works pretty well. Having secondary 
sources ensures that there is more to the article than just a plot summary.

         Chl 