2026-01-03 05:39 UTC
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?
Replies (2)
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@MrEff@lemmy.world 2026-01-03 05:44
Not sure. I have typically just done a Google search and refound the link under the same domain but with a different sub routing.
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@cucumberbob@programming.dev 2026-01-03 08:53
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.