On 15 May 2007 at 15:08:04 -0400, "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.

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Is that the Web / Wikipedia equivalent of the mathematical truth that by asserting a false statement (like "1 = 0") you can proceed to prove literally anything?