[WikiEN-l] Dealing with disappearing sources

[Jonas Rand]

> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:59:54 -0400
> From: Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Dealing with disappearing online sources
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

> If the original source was reliable, and can be found through archive.org 
> or
> something similar, then the obviously best approach is to replace the 
> broken
> link with one that works. If the value of the reference can't be 
> determined,
> but the statement it was referencing is not controversial (i.e. Vermont is 
> a
> state in the United States) then simply remove the reference, maybe with a
> note on the talkpage. If it is an "amazing claim" as Will states, then for
> once he's right - the dead and unverifiable reference leaves the claim
> unreferenced, and a {{fact}} tag is appropriate.
>
> Nathan

I think we should be using webcitation.org more often. It takes 6 months or 
more for web.archive.org to scrape a site.

Jonas Rand
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