User:Donghelan/sandbox

Donghelan 04:45, 12 November 2015 (UTC) Initial sanbox Donghelan 04:54, 12 November 2015 (UTC) Notice that this is still with minimum formatting efforts, using speech recognition to practice my English ;) Links in existing articles on Wikipedia are often invalid. I think it would be useful to have an automatic invalid-link checking and indication facility in Wikipedia. My interest for Aikido in general brought me here. I noticed almost all references in an article about Asai sensei, the founder of the Aikikai in Germany from the mid 1960's are invalid. The English page is actually representing this Aikido master poorly. So lets do something about it :). Stan Pranin of Aikido Journal will be a useful resource and reference due to his exhaustive research work on the subject of Aikido and related martial arts. A correctly working Aikido Journal reference for Asai sensei would be http://store.aikidojournal.com/katsuaki-asai-8th-dan-aikikai-alternates-slow-and-fast-paced-techniques-in-multi-faceted-aikido-demonstration/ instead of http://www.aikidojournal.com/article?articleID=309 Actually it appears a problem at the side of Aiki Journal's internal linking! The reference starts here http://blog.aikidojournal.com/2010/09/18/recommended-reading-interview-with-katsuaki-asai-by-stanley-pranin-2/: Since I know Stanley Pranin, an Aikido sensei himself, I would contact him personally about this minor issue ;) So how could we prevent references from becoming invalid. Difficult question ... maybe .. depends on information which is copyrighted or not I guess. If we can keep copies of original references and refer to them would be an option...