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[+] 78 points 10 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I have a wiki editor account primarily for updating links on pages. I have also done a handful of minor edits on some obscure pages in my field, but primarily use it to update links and references. Link rot is the worst and I wish more people would help out with it.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    When a link is dead, does Wikipedia allow you to change it to an archived copy of the webpage from before it was taken down?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Even if the link isn’t dead, most citation templates that accept a |url= parameter also accept |archive-url=, |archive-date=, and |url-status=

    Also, newly added links are automatically archived on the Wayback Machine iirc.

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