The idea is that you don't, you preserve existing links because you respect that people have already linked there. See Cool URIs don't change for example [0] I

The idea is that you don't, you preserve existing links because you respect that people have already linked there. See Cool URIs don't change for example [0] If you absolutely have to change the link, and if a million people link to it, and are still interested in whatever your link is, they'll update the links themselves. If you removing the link for good, people will have to link to the Wayback Machine instead; Wikipedia bots do this automatically. [1] [0] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI (has been at this URL since 1998) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot