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link even if access is restricted (see WP:PAYWALL). Shortcut WP:DEADREFWP:DEADREF To help prevent dead links, persistent identifiers are available for some...

it is useful to read WP:DEADLINK to see how to repair deadlinks, and WP:DEADREF to understand what policy says to do with them. In general: Do not delete...

in citations. Any dead ref repair should be done in accordance with WP:DEADREF, which does not recommend simply removing them. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:09...

support it no longer includes and is unable to be recovered as per WP:DEADREF. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk • contribs) 14:17, 10 November 2018 (UTC)...

prohibit dead links or redirects. In fact, removing them may violate WP:DEADREF (which was revised a few months ago, so you might want to read it again)...

faulty reviews. Jezhotwells (talk) 01:24, 10 May 2011 (UTC) Please read WP:DEADREF before dealing with the dead link tags; it was substantially revised earlier...

There's nothing wrong with having a handful of dead URLs in citations. WP:DEADREF, which was significantly revised earlier this year, actually prohibits...

formatted citations are not required. Read the detailed guidance at WP:DEADREF before addressing any non-functional URLs. The article should broadly cover...

WP:V Per WP:NOCITE See WP:TWITTER See WP:CITE#HOW More information at WP:DEADREF This is my first peer review. I have nominated an article for a peer review...

NapHit (talk) 20:12, 14 January 2023 (UTC) Refs needs archive links per WP:DEADREF and works to be linked eg The New York Times Images All images are free...

has been deleted. You can see this edit comparison. There are multiple deadrefs, multiple section with incomplete/confusing information etc. We know that...

everything is fixable, and I don't know enough to say whether they are. Deadrefs are solvable, 116 shouldn't have a {{citation needed}} tag because it's...

Demanding the removal of dead links, in direct violation of WP:Linkrot and WP:DEADREF Requiring the use (or non-use) of citation templates. Requiring consistently...

a link is dead does not mean it is not reliable per my cite above, WP:DEADREF and WP:DEADLINK. "Fails this criteria (sic) because, again, the cited references...

in a citation does not mean it must be removed. See the guidance at WP:DEADREF for when it is appropriate to remove citations with dead links. Crucially...

URLs... which is a good thing, because editors need to comply with WP:DEADREF even in GAs. Delist per above. No one's trying to fix it up, and most of...

notability WP:GNG WP:NTEMP, Poorly sourced references WP:SOURCES WP:QS WP:DEADREF, CV like WP:COI, Poorly written, Random Trivia, lacks independence/autobiographical...

to remove a few archive links for the mere sake of consistency. Per WP:DEADREF: "consider archiving the referenced document when writing the article"...

18 May 2011 (UTC) This is a bit of a passing comment, but relevant: WP:DEADREF was significantly changed back in March, and most GA reviewers don't seem...

on a now-defunct website). Within citations, see the instructions at WP:DEADREF and Wikipedia:Link rot. It may be worth checking to see if there is a working...

Harrias talk 08:15, 24 August 2015 (UTC) The applicable guideline is WP:DEADREF: "If the source material does not exist offline, and if there is no archived...

rot is also not a deletion reason. Link rot should be addressed via WP:DEADREF. These are issues for cleanup, not for deletion. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 08:30...

to close this one. Szzuk (talk) 14:48, 10 May 2011 (UTC) Please read WP:DEADREF before dealing with the dead link tags; it was substantially revised earlier...

GA criteria do not prohibit dead URLs—which is a good thing, because WP:DEADREF basically prohibits you from deleting a citation merely because the URL...

to exist. Archiving references is important to prevent link rot (see WP:DEADREF for more information). If the domain scheme has changed, post at WP:URLREQ...

‘WP:DEADLINK" redirects here. For the related guideline, see WP:DEADREF’ where DEADREF is same as the link shared by Marchjuly and Bfpage. And point #5...

contents of the specific page as long as the site is still available. See WP:DEADREF for more information on how to use these tools. Finding critic reviews...

Times of India. Dead links do not mean sources are fabricated (see WP:DEADREF). He has received notable awards and recognition, meeting WP:GNG.Sweetabena...

sales figure, with the dead link note, is exactly what is indicated by WP:DEADREF, which says Deactivate the dead link, and keep the citation information...

archived here, which qualifies it as valid per WP:LR, WP:MDLI, WP:KDL, and WP:DEADREF. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 19:43, 7 August 2024 (UTC) You keep saying this:...

links are left. Wer900 • talk 23:17, 28 March 2013 (UTC) Have you read WP:DEADREF? WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:12, 28 March 2013 (UTC) I must have at some point...

2001, which I did check. There are unsourced statements, and there are deadrefs, and there are other issues: all of which is, however, distinct from an...

citation does not "depend on" a link, although linking is desirable. See WP:DEADREF and WP:OFFLINE. —BarrelProof (talk) 20:05, 25 June 2014 (UTC) But they...

Don't throw out valid source citations just because the URL dies. See WP:DEADREF for official advice on this. --Orlady (talk) 05:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)...

am very concerned that these messages will cause people to violate WP:DEADREF by simply removing dead links (rather than waiting to see whether they've...

no longer work as websites have been removed. - That is irrelevant. WP:DEADREF is clear: Do not delete a citation merely because the URL is not working...

2013 (UTC) Also, Youtube isn't reliable either as per WP:NOYT, and WP:DEADREF makes it perfectly clear we don't delete citations just because they have...

resolve this debate is, rather than argue about dead links (which, per WP:DEADREF, are still acceptable provided we can find a log on the Wayback Machine)...

is frustrating. The IP user removed a dead reference in violation of WP:DEADREF. The content was sourced, and it is undue to cherry pick sources. When...

filter log · block user · block log) This is an editor who replaces WP:DEADREFs with working URLs, where any given day of edits from them has several neutral...

believe the site will come online again and even, if it wasn't per WP:DEADREF you cannot simply remove references when they go dead. I have not "made...

contains very little information about what to do, how to deal with WP:DEADREFs, or anything else. The "click here to request whitelisting" points at the...

demonstrates the importance of communication? Re: referencing, cf. WP:DEADREF and then onto WP:MINREF. For clarity, I'm not particularly in favour of...

See the link fixed. Dead links have never ever meant unsourced. See WP:DEADREF. nableezy - 06:57, 25 December 2021 (UTC) The point was that there were...

new source, and the more important question is whether there are any WP:DEADREFs in the article. I recommend deleting. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they)...

cares? Dead links are permitted, and their removal may be prohibited by WP:DEADREF (which was revised earlier this year). Dab links? Who cares? GAs are not...

primary promotional sources, and all are accessible via archived URLs per WP:DEADREF. Go Venue Magazine and Rock Documented are professionally run editorial...

(Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:17, 18 March 2014 (UTC) Both WP:DEADREF and WP:EL have a little information that might be useful to you. WhatamIdoing...

Demanding the removal of dead links, in direct violation of WP:Linkrot and WP:DEADREF Requiring the use (or non-use) of citation templates. Requiring consistently...

however, is not really considered to be OK to link to on Wikipedia to per WP:DEADREF (Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC), so I'm not sure if that makes a difference...

the cite is broken. TerriersFan (talk) 16:37, 22 February 2009 (UTC) WP:DEADREF --NE2 16:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC) If you are lucky, it will be available...

Wikipedia:Link rot).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:19, 26 February 2011 (UTC) (ec) WP:DEADREF and WP:DEADLINK may help. Nanonic (talk) 01:21, 26 February 2011 (UTC)...

Village pump Policy Technical Proposals Idea lab WMF Miscellaneous Village pump (policy) archive   This page contains discussions that have been archived...

Finally, TV Tropes has no mechanism for permanent links, leading to more WP:DEADREF; All The Tropes has built in permanent links. BrentLaabs (talk) 18:53,...

a non-clickable link or replaced with a different source if it's a WP:DEADREF. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:26, 4 November 2015 (UTC) Thanks, everyone, for...

Archive.org. If a citation's original URL is dead, try repairing it. See WP:DEADREF for detailed advice. Basic steps: Look up the original URL on one of the...

Rich, that sounds like a good solution. Why don't you document it at WP:DEADREF, in case anyone else encounters the same problem? WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:56...

(Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:41, 31 December 2011 (UTC) WP:DEADREF has information on dead links and how to repair them. If we can find an...

If you encounter dead URLs, you need to follow the instructions at WP:DEADREF—which, by the way, tell you to add a dated {{dead link}} tag so that future...

swaps them all to archived links? From what I see in WP:DEADLINK and WP:DEADREF, there is only manual way. Brandmeistertalk 18:01, 12 August 2016 (UTC)...

that they were added. We have a small problem with people violating WP:DEADREF by deleting any URL that doesn't work for them. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:23...

reusers. Flatscan (talk) 05:19, 19 February 2011 (UTC) WP:DEADLINK and WP:DEADREF give conflicting advice about dealing with dead links used to support article...

link, so you can include the relevant citation info without a url; see WP:DEADREF (the paragraph beginning with Deactivate the dead link, and keep the citation...

option is to see if the article is available on an archiving service. WP:DEADREF gives some good links to find information that was reviously on the web...

impossible to search on that) --MASEM (t) 14:26, 26 October 2011 (UTC) WP:DEADREF provides a number of tasks for human editors. The value in tagging a link...

that are found in articles, but it's often a problem, as explained in WP:DEADREF, that can be fixed. Moreover, sources aren't required to be available online...

Demanding the removal of dead links, in direct violation of WP:Linkrot and WP:DEADREF Requiring the use (or non-use) of citation templates. Requiring consistently...

paywall. I couldn't tell what to do from looking at WP:DEADLINK or WP:DEADREF in the case where the cited material still exists and is technically available...

necessarily delete no longer accessible citations for the reasons given in WP:DEADREF. So, in my opinion, if the "old" url is no longer accessible, then you...

and then copying the URL and date to the new parms in the cite (see WP:DEADREF, though note that suggested step 2 applies mainly to news articles, not...

Hi ArcticSeeress. With respect to dead links, please take a look at WP:DEADREF and WP:ELDEAD because there are different ways for dealing with them depending...

citation or as an external link. For the former, please take a look at WP:DEADREF; for the latter, please take a look at WP:ELDEAD. Generally, citations...

require a working weblink (it does not even need to be available online), WP:DEADREF discusses potential resolutions to the issue in some detail. Someguy1221...

no longer work as websites have been removed. - That is irrelevant. WP:DEADREF is clear: Do not delete a citation merely because the URL is not working...

that there's a malware problem. It probably should be treated as a WP:DEADREF and WP:ELDEAD and the links either replaced by archived versions (they...

notability WP:GNG WP:NTEMP, Poorly sourced references WP:SOURCES WP:QS WP:DEADREF, CV like WP:COI, Poorly written, Random Trivia, lacks independence/autobiographical...

Don't throw out valid source citations just because the URL dies. See WP:DEADREF for official advice on this. --Orlady (talk) 05:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)...

discard/remove dead links because they are dead for the reasons given in WP:DEADREF and WP:ELDEAD. If you don't have the time or ability to try and repair/sort...

either tag them as dead links or include live or archive links. See WP:DEADREF. In Sons of Champlin you were apparently having problems with list-defined...

archived copy should be found, and used to update the citation. See WP:DEADREF for instructions. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 23:25, 22 November 2019 (UTC)...

rot is also not a deletion reason. Link rot should be addressed via WP:DEADREF. These are issues for cleanup, not for deletion. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 08:30...

the passage rewritten, so that it no longer relies on the dead link, per DEADREF. You don't delete an article that was poorly sourced, take it to DRV, have...

00:08, 6 April 2013 (UTC) The only relevant advice I can find is from WP:DEADREF, "Do not delete a citation merely because the URL is not working today"...

(talk) 06:17, 3 December 2018 (UTC) @Hkhenson: You should take a look at WP:DEADREF since it provides suggestions on how to deal with links that no longer...

LorriBrown (talk) 19:16, 28 July 2019 (UTC) You'll find advice at WP:DEADREF. David Biddulph (talk) 19:38, 28 July 2019 (UTC) (edit conflict) :Hi LorriBrown...

Foundation remains viable. --Teratornis (talk) 16:27, 23 May 2008 (UTC) See WP:DEADREF. LinkChecker is a great tool that will check links, mark dead links and...

reason the url needs to be changed? The doi.org link appears to be a WP:DEADREF, but it's not always necessary to remove or replace a reference just because...

support it no longer includes and is unable to be recovered as per WP:DEADREF. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk • contribs) 14:17, 10 November 2018 (UTC)...

copy of the original source as described at WP:DEADLINK. (See also WP:DEADREF.) Or a new source to support the statement can often be found. You can...

2001, which I did check. There are unsourced statements, and there are deadrefs, and there are other issues: all of which is, however, distinct from an...

you can follow the guidelines at Wikipedia:Dead external links and WP:DEADREF, for dead internal links see Wikipedia:Red link. Nanonic (talk) 23:10,...

16:43, 2 June 2016 (UTC) You may be interested in reading the advice at WP:DEADREF, if you haven't found that yet. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:03, 15 June 2016...

supported) just because the link has gone dead. For more information, see DEADREF. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 15:09, 14 February 2019 (UTC) To correct what...

you "Page not found" errors? You should follow the instructions at WP:DEADREF. — Gestrid (talk) 02:31, 7 November 2016 (UTC) I want to be become better...

version of the original page. There is more information on what to do at WP:DEADREF- if you cant find another version of the page. Curdle (talk) 23:53, 10...

to close this one. Szzuk (talk) 14:48, 10 May 2011 (UTC) Please read WP:DEADREF before dealing with the dead link tags; it was substantially revised earlier...

archived link. There's nothing wrong with such an edit as explained in WP:DEADREF, and it would actually be considered an improvement by most experienced...

 Rishi1010 (talk) 06:23, 28 February 2021 (UTC) Hi Rishi1010. Please see WP:DEADREF for more on this, but a dead link isn't necessarily removed just because...

October 2022 (UTC) Dead reference links should not be removed. Please see WP:DEADREF for policy details. Shantavira|feed me 09:32, 7 October 2022 (UTC) Hi everyone...

links, they are simply removed because they are dead as explained in WP:DEADREF or WP:ELDEAD. In many cases, archived versions of a dead link can be found...

rule against deadlinks [because any such rule would directly violate WP:DEADREF] and there's no rule against red links). Laura withdraws the GAN, which...

conveniently assists RS/N editors Short answer: You follow the instructions at WP:DEADREF. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:32, 5 June 2012 (UTC) The idf link http://www1...

only six months (or even less). These links should NOT be deleted. See WP:DEADREF. It may be appropriate to mark them with the {{dead link}} template. Sbowers3...

the source can be found in physical form at e.g. a library). See also WP:DEADREF, which explains what to do for sources which contain a dead link.--talk2Chun(talk)...

2017 (UTC) It was a dead link when you added it to the article. And WP:DEADREF – which assumes, perhaps naïvely, that editors are not going around deliberately...

Clarityfiend (talk) 06:08, 29 January 2021 (UTC) @Wikieditor6557: See WP:DEADREF for more info. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 06:12, 29 January 2021 (UTC) I have a...

welcome to Wikipedia editing. The general advice is at WP:LINKROT and WP:DEADREF. In this specific case you can definitely remove the URL because, as you...

cares? Dead links are permitted, and their removal may be prohibited by WP:DEADREF (which was revised earlier this year). Dab links? Who cares? GAs are not...

December 2016 (UTC) Hello, Peterye2005, and welcome to the Teahouse. Per WP:DEADREF, citations with dead links should not be removed. The saying that nothing...

July 2013 (UTC) If you don't respect WP:DEADLINK, maybe you'll respect WP:DEADREF. My rationale for opposing this candidate is simple: he is not qualified...

think the information you are looking for can be found at WP:PLRT and WP:DEADREF. To find exactly where the citation is in the article, click on the backlink...

(UTC) Welcome to the Teahouse, Kaartic. There is advice on this at WP:DEADREF, but in short, you shouldn't just remove dead references. Often, it is...

8) A deadlink is not necessarily a valueless link. Please refer to WP:DEADREF for more information. There are probably lots of reasons why links go dead;...

policy (required removal of unsourced, controversial material) and WP:DEADREF + a little WP:REDFLAG might work best. If the web content from THE is no...

complete details and other ways to repair broken links, please read WP:DEADREF. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 04:29, 10 January 2016 (UTC) Thank you :) Rabt...

See the link fixed. Dead links have never ever meant unsourced. See WP:DEADREF. nableezy - 06:57, 25 December 2021 (UTC) The point was that there were...

use them to verify the contents of the article. See WP:LINKROT and WP:DEADREF. Do you have a specific article in mind? -- John of Reading (talk) 05:59...

everything is fixable, and I don't know enough to say whether they are. Deadrefs are solvable, 116 shouldn't have a {{citation needed}} tag because it's...

'controversy' is in fact a thing. Rather than just an email spat. Also see WP:DEADREF. Dead/not working links are not by themselves reason to remove uncontroversial...

a link is dead does not mean it is not reliable per my cite above, WP:DEADREF and WP:DEADLINK. "Fails this criteria (sic) because, again, the cited references...

00:56:00 2 Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 10 Proposed rewrite of WP:DEADREF guideline 2008-05-16 01:06:00 1 Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive...

the link fails all other steps on WP:DEADREF, would the next correct step be to remove the dead link per DEADREF or keep it per WP:KDL? Thanks, Ecourter...

accessible as a WP:DEADREF despite the hosting site (Khyber.org) now being defunct. Both of these sources are compatible with WP:RS, WP:DEADREF, and WP:PRIMARY...

to remove a few archive links for the mere sake of consistency. Per WP:DEADREF: "consider archiving the referenced document when writing the article"...

link, so you can include the relevant citation info without a url; see WP:DEADREF (the paragraph beginning with Deactivate the dead link, and keep the citation...

Harrias talk 08:15, 24 August 2015 (UTC) The applicable guideline is WP:DEADREF: "If the source material does not exist offline, and if there is no archived...

WP:V Per WP:NOCITE See WP:TWITTER See WP:CITE#HOW More information at WP:DEADREF This is my first peer review. I have nominated an article for a peer review...

GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 06:42, 21 February 2026 (UTC) Also, @PARAKANYAA, per WP:DEADREF (our actual content guideline on the matter, not the how to guide), Do...

NapHit (talk) 20:12, 14 January 2023 (UTC) Refs needs archive links per WP:DEADREF and works to be linked eg The New York Times Images All images are free...

added to Wikipedia are automatically archived. This messaging from WP:DEADREF and WP:MDLI is very confusing. --skarz (talk) 18:12, 25 February 2026 (UTC)...

archived here, which qualifies it as valid per WP:LR, WP:MDLI, WP:KDL, and WP:DEADREF. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 19:43, 7 August 2024 (UTC) You keep saying this:...

(they're being added now, in case it might go offline later). But see WP:DEADREF for the standard process. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:04, 8 February 2026 (UTC)...

Times of India. Dead links do not mean sources are fabricated (see WP:DEADREF). He has received notable awards and recognition, meeting WP:GNG.Sweetabena...

primary promotional sources, and all are accessible via archived URLs per WP:DEADREF. Go Venue Magazine and Rock Documented are professionally run editorial...

invoked in the discussions held at Talk:Donald Trump. And because WP:CITE/WP:DEADREF were not even considered, you cannot WP:IAR a rule you never even considered...

source because sometimes a work-around can be found as explained in WP:DEADREF. A single link to YouTube, though, typically not sufficient in and of itself...

practice in this situation? Iljhgtn (talk) 01:34, 15 April 2025 (UTC) The WP:DEADREF guideline instructs not to delete the link, but instead suggests several...

matter yourself; for example, dead links can sometimes be resolved per WP:DEADREF. If you're too pressed for time or otherwise unable/unwilling to try and...

located for some of them. More info at Wikipedia:Link rot and Wikipedia:DEADREF. Hope this helps. Others here may have a different approach to suggest...

at that archive. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:00, 4 September 2024 (UTC) WP:DEADREF may be of help. LizardJr8 (talk) 22:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC) I have been...

(UTC) WP:LINKROT —Trappist the monk (talk) 23:53, 12 July 2025 (UTC) WP:DEADREF might be more on-target for this situation, and is the basis for Hoary's...

2024 (UTC) Hi Draco Centauros. There's some information about this in WP:DEADREF and Template:Cite web#Using "archive-url" and "archive-date" (and optionally...

because of PEIS we cannot pre-emptively archive sources as prescribed at WP:DEADREF and WP:ARCHIVEEARLY. The current limit is 2MB, and has apparently been...

Welfare Trust citation when it is used narrowly, under WP:PRIMARY and WP:DEADREF, to identify an organizational listing — not to establish broader ethnographic...