28.12.2015, 21:00, "James Heilman" <email clipped>:
Deadlinks are one of the most common ways of spamming Wikipedia. Paid editors replace deadlinks with links to the spam site which now contains the contain as it way copied from waybackmachine. Linking to waybackmachine is thus superior.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Not necessarily disbelieving you, but can you point to a single, concrete example of a "paid editor replacing a deadlink with a link to the spam site copied from waybackmachine?" I'd like to see what you are talking about.
Trillium Corsage