Quoting Charlotte Webb
<charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 10/25/07, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)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.