On Sep 16, 2005, at 2:24 PM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
I'd prefer including their contribution over their person.
I considered this, but I think there are too many cases where it would be too unclear what to do. I'm thinking off-handedly of, say, an article on the Freudian death drive and the notion of "creative descruction," particularly as it applies to David Cronenberg's film _ExistenZ_. Add the content of this (quite important) article to [[Death drive]], [[Creative destruction]], and [[ExistenZ]]? Or an article on the article title?
Since many fields - particularly the humanities - have a real sense of intellectual movement and development over the course of somebody's work, a central article on the scholar that lays out the body of work seems to me tremendously helpful. If they only have one article, sure - redirect their name to the article. But for anyone with a body of work, it seems to me that a summary of that body of work is notable.
-Snowspinner