At 05:10 AM 6/29/2006, Steve Bennett 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]]"?
From an editor's point of view: leave it as a redlink, so one can easily tell it needs work.
From a reader's point of view: write the stub, a little bit of information is always better than none. A little bit of easy-to-find information is also much better than having to search through a lengthy article on a related topic to which a redirect goes.
Personally, I think we should write for our readers rather than for ourselves, and so I would go with the stub.
Chl