Doesn't a web.archive.org link contain within it the URL of the original source?

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:45:24 +0100, Pawe³'Ausir' Dembowski wrote: However, that may not be transparent to an inexperienced user who finds that the link is dead, which is the reason for not replacing the original. Of course, even as I type this, I realise that the user who cannot recognise the URL within the link is probably too unsophisticated to find an alternative archive. Theo _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On 8/22/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote: If the site is dead, and there is no archive of it on the internet archive (or anywhere else presumably), why would you want the link anyway? --gkhan

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:00:40 +0100, Pawe³ 'Ausir' Dembowski wrote: Adding a link to web.archive.org is appropriate and desirable but replacement destroys the link to the original source, which will be needed if/when web.archive.org dies.

Alphax wrote: [Archive.org] They archive loads; the archives are only available some 6 months or so after archival, though, so as not to be a direct "competitor" for the same content, or something. Thus it won't appear to have "archived" anything since about February.