Often I do provide direct links, but when I've already done it somewhere else, I like to explain to people how they can find the information for themselves.  We were all new here at one time or another, and have all benefitted from having the sometimes confusing facilities that are available here explained to us, where we haven't always been able to work them out for ourselves; mind you, it should be a lot easier, now that we have a far more sophisticated search engine and an extensive FAQ, than it used to be.  Showing somebody how to use a set of tools is, in the long run, far more helpful than simply doing the job for them.

Malcolm