On Jun 29, 2006, at 7:47 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/29/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)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
In the case of a book on which there is no article a redirect to the
author is appropriate. I don't think there are very many books which
will support a decent article, but then I don't think the average
episode of South Park does either. We need to have a discussion on
which books ought to have articles. Some criteria regarding notability.
Fred