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| Hi, many thanks for supplying the archive URLs for dead links. Would be good if you could use the appropriate date format for the archive date rather than always using ISO date. If you look at the references then you should be able to determine if day first or month first is more appropriate than ISO. If all dates are in same format adding a date out of sync with the rest is not good practice, many articles use a mixture so go with the most common. ] (]) 18:26, 29 July 2013 (UTC) | Hi, many thanks for supplying the archive URLs for dead links. Would be good if you could use the appropriate date format for the archive date rather than always using ISO date. If you look at the references then you should be able to determine if day first or month first is more appropriate than ISO. If all dates are in same format adding a date out of sync with the rest is not good practice, many articles use a mixture so go with the most common. ] (]) 18:26, 29 July 2013 (UTC) | ||
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One more thing: I see that you have added archive links to the citations in several pages. Archive links should not be added unless the linked page is gone and no other page will do. Bots often automatically add archive links when needed. I have undone your revisions; in the future, please use the link checker tool (example) to find dead links, and only add archive links for links that show up in red. Happy editing! —Remember the dot 02:14, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Questions about Archive.is
Hello! I noticed that you are the owner of Archive.is (from the talk page at Misplaced Pages talk:Link rot#Archive.is). I have a few questions:
- Can you create a gadget for Misplaced Pages in order to show the archived link near each external link? (since you archived automatically all the external links last year). If yes, then can you archive the Misplaced Pages's external links automatically each month or so, from now on?
- Can you create a Bookmarklet for archiving links with Archive.is, like WebCite's bookmarklet - Misplaced Pages:Using WebCite#Bookmarklet ?
- Can you create a way like the WikiWix gadget for archiving an external link automatically, just by clicking the first time on it's Archive.is link? (I detailed how WikiWix gadget works at Misplaced Pages talk:Link rot#Better archiving of external links)
Such things would be extremely useful, in my view. Thank you. — Ark25 (talk) 19:22, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
- Do you mean something like Template:Query_web_archive ? It is already there, but not very popular.
- There is a bookmarklet: javascript:void(open('http://archive.is/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location))) (or drag the same link from the top of http://archive.is/ to your toolbar).
- New external links are being archived constantly, approximately each 30-60 minutes (because there are a lot of wikis and they checked sequentially). So, it seems needless to wait for a click.
- Rotlink (talk) 13:07, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Dating archive
Hi, many thanks for supplying the archive URLs for dead links. Would be good if you could use the appropriate date format for the archive date rather than always using ISO date. If you look at the references then you should be able to determine if day first or month first is more appropriate than ISO. If all dates are in same format adding a date out of sync with the rest is not good practice, many articles use a mixture so go with the most common. Keith D (talk) 18:26, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
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| I award you Rotlink this Special Barnstar for your hard work in repairing dead links. Thank you -- Marek.69 00:46, 30 July 2013 (UTC) |