On 5/16/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
But I could put in a link to a dead site and use it to reference anything at all, true or false, and nobody would ever be able to dispute it. I think the reasonable thing to do is to leave the link in the wikitext, and comment it out with an explanation.
Out of print books, even the most esoteric, are still in libraries. Unless dead links are in an internet archive somewhere, they are nowhere at all. DGG
Since at the time those links were put in, they were live, as David Gerard says...Assume Good Faith? It's one thing to link to a dead site after it's died and claim it as a source; it's another to have cited the link when it was live and later have it go dead. That's the reason we have things like "Retrieved on [date]".
Johnleemk