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Kathleen McCook's avatar

You can search a title after the link disappears but you can't search the dead link. I mean it's not fool proof--of course if I were going to go full librarian I would ask for title, publisher, date, etc. but I didn't want to over do it. There is a bot in Wikipedia which scours it for link rot and so much! All the work to put something together and then it loses veracity with dead links.

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Darren Kloomok's avatar

Thank you. I admire your OCD; when you consider how many links are out there it's a wonder anyone gets through.

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HBI's avatar

We have discussed the Wayback Machine before. You should test that out before giving up. Many links can be recovered there.

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Kathleen McCook's avatar

Yes, many but not all-- and don't forget to donate!

Donate to Wayback machine: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=wbwww-TopNavDonateButton

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