Editing Help:Fixing dead links
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When you find a dead link, the first thing to do is to check a search engine such as Bing, Duck Duck Go, Google, Yahoo!, etc., to see if the same content can be found elsewhere on a live webpage which appears relatively stable. When such is the case, you should simply change the URL of the link to point to that new location in lieu of the old one. | When you find a dead link, the first thing to do is to check a search engine such as Bing, Duck Duck Go, Google, Yahoo!, etc., to see if the same content can be found elsewhere on a live webpage which appears relatively stable. When such is the case, you should simply change the URL of the link to point to that new location in lieu of the old one. | ||
− | If the link is to an electronic version of a | + | If the link is to an electronic version of a formally print medium (newspaper, magazine, book, etc.), find out if the article occurred in one of the print editions and, if so, you may choose to cite it instead of the electronic version. |
When these options fail, the next step to take is to search Internet archive sites. Two such prominent sites are the Internet Archive at https://archive.org and archive.is, at https://archive.is - if the content can be found on such sites, use one of the steps below to help fix it. | When these options fail, the next step to take is to search Internet archive sites. Two such prominent sites are the Internet Archive at https://archive.org and archive.is, at https://archive.is - if the content can be found on such sites, use one of the steps below to help fix it. |