Doom Wiki:RFC/Romero website unreliability

RFC
John Romero has an interesting and extremely unfortunate habit spanning at least a decade now of tearing down his meticulously built websites, letting the domain registrations expire so that they get squatted, and/or even setting robots.txt on his newer pages, causing the Wayback Machine to bar all the archived material from public access. This has led to a constant battle of trying to keep up-to-date the dozens of links on this wiki to the various resources he has hosted over the years. We need to take some preventative actions to stop this from being such a large issue in the future.

Templating
We need to create link archiving template variations which autocategorize articles with links to the affected domains to collect them into a hidden maintenance category. Such templates should also be built to make changing the target domains en masse a simple process that does not involve hand editing every affected article.

Self-hosting content
Romero has had no problem with us hosting most of the content in question ourselves, in particular with respect to his images, so I suggest we continue to do so under fair use, until and unless someone wants to obtain a formal grant of permission from him in which case he would need to stipulate terms under which he is comfortable with us hosting the files.

Alternative stable hosts
Migrate links to alternative stable hosts that exist when possible. For example, any references to Usenet material that exist in Lee Killough's DOOM page are probably secondary sources for which first hand material exists either on Usenet itself (use Google Groups archive) or on gamers.org.

List of known affected articles
This list is likely incomplete at present. Please update with any further results that can be recovered via Special:LinkSearch, external search engine results, or database/API queries.


 * Barrel suicide
 * Commander Keen
 * Dante's Gate
 * Doom II
 * Doom Insanity
 * Doom Wiki:Source material
 * Doom's protagonist
 * E2M2: Containment Area (Doom)
 * E3M6: Mt. Erebus (Doom)
 * E4M7: And Hell Followed (Doom)
 * Easter egg
 * Engine bug
 * John Romero
 * Non-Newtonian motion of corpses
 * Origwad
 * Revenant
 * Sandy Petersen
 * Skill level
 * Straferunning
 * The Ultimate Doom
 * The Unholy Trinity
 * Thy Flesh Consumed
 * Tom Hall
 * Voodoo doll