[WikiEN-l] Re: ASINs and ISBNs

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 8/22/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/08/05, Theo Clarke <wiki at tignosis.com> wrote:
> 
> > >Can't we replace such links with links to web.archive.org then?
> >
> > Adding a link to web.archive.org is appropriate and desirable but
> > replacement destroys the link to the original source, which will be
> > needed if/when web.archive.org dies.
> 
> Doesn't a web.archive.org link contain within it the URL of the original source?

If the site is dead, and there is no archive of it on the internet
archive (or anywhere else presumably), why would you want the link
anyway?

--gkhan