On 6/29/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@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
Substub it unless you want to insert the substub into the author's page; substubs are acessible to everybody for editing, and besides, many people who wouldn't dare create an article because the responbsiblity or effort is just too much would be perfectly happy to add a sentence to the article or summarize some of the contents of an ext. link.
~maru