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.
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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