On 7/20/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
I did a redirect the other day. They got after me
because there was "no article". So I ended up protecting the redirect. I did
write a half-assed article eventually, but did that under duress. I can see no problem
having a redirect to a red link, if the redirect is to the best title. When did a red link
become an offense, anyway?
Fred
Red links are good, but redirects to red links look like blue links,
and thus pretend that an article exists when it really doesn't. Hiding
a red link behind a redirect makes the red link useless, as the reader
is no longer alerted that an article about the topic is missing. In
addition, readers who click on the redirect get a weird redirect page
containing a red link, contrary to their usual experience how
Wikipedia works. Redirects to non-existing pages are harmful; if you
can't even write a poor stub, do not create a redirect.
Kusma