At 05:10 AM 6/29/2006, Steve Bennett wrote:
Hi all,
When discovering a redlink, which is better: to leave it as a
redlink, or redirect it to the "closest" topic? Eg, a redlink to the
name of a book - best to leave it that way, or create it as a redirect
to the book's author? Or, create a substub "X is a book by
[[Author]]"?
From an editor's point of view: leave it as a redlink, so one can
easily tell it needs work.
From a reader's point of view: write the stub, a little bit of
information is always better than none. A little bit of easy-to-find
information is also much better than having to search through a
lengthy article on a related topic to which a redirect goes.
Personally, I think we should write for our readers rather than for
ourselves, and so I would go with the stub.
Chl