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You're overthinking this. If you link to the Wikipedia page, you have reasonable certainty the link will be valid for a decent length of time. If I distribute s
by orra 3y ago
You're overthinking this. If you link to the Wikipedia page, you have reasonable certainty the link will be valid for a decent length of time. If I distribute something now, the link doesn't have to be valid in 20 years time.
What if in 20 years time the link no longer works and I'm still distributing the content? Then I'll update the link, or link to the web archive. If for some reason neither of these is possible, it might even be reasonable to attribute more generally 'unknown wikipedia contributors, formerly documented at [old url]'.
- martin_a 3y ago> you have reasonable certainty the link will be valid for a decent length of time. Welcome to the German Wikipedia where stuff gets deleted quicker than you can look up what a Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänspatent even is.
- jowea 3y agoAlthough it is inconvenient you can still ask an administrator for the page log https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_history#Moved_and_deleted_pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_history#Moved_and_de...