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Well it turns out I may have been mistaken; the bot that I thought did that is defunct, and I cannot easily find another that does that. After thinking about i
by Wingman4l7 14y ago
Well it turns out I may have been mistaken; the bot that I thought did that is defunct, and I cannot easily find another that does that. After thinking about it, I can see some reasons why you might not want a bot automatically marking links as dead. There are these, which I think are a bit more manual in nature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot#Bots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot#Bots
- emiliobumachar 14y agoPlease share those reasons. The only one I can think of is false positives of temporarily down servers, which could be mitigated by timed retries.
- Wingman4l7 14y agoThat is the main reason. Another would be some sort of "Content not here anymore" message that doesn't conform to HTTP status code standards, giving a false negative.