On 6/29/06, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
A redlink might just be a mistake, so briefly search for an existing article. If it seems it could be a viable article it should be left alone. I think it should continue to be a redlink until someone is ready to write an article rather than being made into a stub.
But if someone is looking for information on a book, is it not more useful to make that book a redirect to the author, where at least the one liner "John Foo is best known for his brilliant book, Foo Strikes Again, which is all about ...." is better than nothing.
I firmly believe that Wikipedia's mission is to answer the question "What the hell is X?" to whatever extent it can, rather than just give up and say "no, we don't know either". Even if all we have time to write is "It's a book, check out these three urls".
Steve