Wikipedia:Village pump (policy): Difference between revisions

:If what you say in your first bit of bolding is true (I have no reason to doubt it but don't have time to check now) then I am in the same minority, if it really is a minority. [[User:Phil Bridger|Phil Bridger]] ([[User talk:Phil Bridger|talk]]) 19:40, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

::This being Wikipedia, I should cite my sources :-) [https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/ IA in 2018]: {{tqq|For more than 5 years, the Internet Archive has been archiving nearly every URL referenced in close to 300 wikipedia sites as soon as those links are added or changed at the rate of about 20 million URLs/week.}} [[WP:WAYBACK]] also says {{tqq|New URLs added to Wikipedia articles (but not other pages) are usually automatically archived by a bot.}} It ''also'' says {{tqq|Editors are encouraged to add an archive link as a part of each citation}}, which I think it should not say. BTW, another very easy solution to this would be to code the citation templates to not display archive links unless |url-status=dead. This could also probably be done as a CSS hack, so editors who didn't want to see those links for live URLs could turn them off as it were. [[User:Levivich|Levivich]] ([[User talk:Levivich|talk]]) 20:07, 8 September 2024 (UTC)