[WikiEN-l] Redlinks or redirects?

Fri Jun 30 19:26:05 UTC 2006

I'm very late to this conversation but I just wanted to chime in
(since I don't think I saw anybody say it yet) that I always see red
links as an invitation to create an article (blue links, on the other
hand, are an invitation to read another article). I don't put red
links in anywhere I don't think a full, new article would be
warranted. This is obviously a personal call (is it ever not one?),
but as a guiding principle it works for me pretty well in ambiguous
situations.

FF

On 6/29/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> 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]]"?
>
> Steve
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