• NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    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?

    • cucumberbob@programming.dev
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      1 hour 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.

    • MrEff@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Not sure. I have typically just done a Google search and refound the link under the same domain but with a different sub routing.