221B Recs

The trouble is, it looks like she may never finish it. Would the deciding criteria then be to wait for an announcement from the author saying that it's definitely closed? I've noticed that a couple of other series that are currently open-ended have been recced, and one of them is my own (Drowning Man - there is, in theory, a fourth story coming, but I've been leaning away from it more recently, but still can't make up my mind as to whether it's really finished or not; the other one I'm thinking of is wordstrings's Paradox, as it's continually added to, albeit without warning). In other words, finished/unfinished is an incredibly grey area, and some things have already been recced here that are technically unfinished, but that seem stalled out or might, who knows, actually finally have dead-ended. Do you have protocol in place to handle this sort of thing? It's been months and months since ristrettoette added to her crossover series, so might it be safe for reccing? Sorry to be asking such nitpicky technical questions :)