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> * To be honest, no. But Wikipedia seems to have that event pretty well covered* And in a lot of cases, the actual citations or references used by Wikipedia a
by shabble 12y ago
> * To be honest, no. But Wikipedia seems to have that event pretty well covered*
And in a lot of cases, the actual citations or references used by Wikipedia are dead links, or have some sort of 'last retrieved at' annotation, or end up at parked/squatted domains and the original content is no longer there to validate the claims it supposedly made.
Offhand I don't know if Wikipedia has a policy on references to Internet Archive / wayback-machine links to things, but imo, being able to point to a snapshot of a reference at the time it was made, as well as the current version if it still exists, is a desirable feature, and well worth striving for.
Internet pagerot/linkrot has caused me grief with bookmarks for things I didn't realise I needed again until years later when they were gone.
- Mithrandir 12y ago> Offhand I don't know if Wikipedia has a policy on references to Internet Archive / wayback-machine links to things They do have a policy.[1] Additionally, IA has been specifically crawling links on Wikipedia to preserve the citations.[2][3] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_the_Wayback_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_the_Wayback_Machine 2: https://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/ https://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/ 3: https://archive.org/details/NO404-WKP/v2 https://archive.org/details/NO404-WKP/v2