Quoting Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca:
joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com:
On 10/25/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
I suppose if the "dead" link goes to something actively misleading instead of just a standard 404 page one should deactivate the link, though, to make sure readers notice the fact that it's not the material that was originally referenced.
Such as those phony domain-squatter search engine pages that crop up when people fail to pay their bills.
?C.W.
Yes, I think we remove that sort of thing routinely anyways. I've certainly never hesitated to remove them.
I hope you're just deactivating the links or finding substitutes in accordance with the citation guidelines I quoted upthread rather than outright removing them.
Er yes. Bad phrasing on my part.