User talk:Julierourke

John Kensit
I am not sure why you think the links are broken. They appear to work fine, I just tested them again, and they are using persistent URLs now which reduces risk of link rot. Kerry (talk) 13:26, 10 May 2017 (UTC).

I am not sure how to reply to you but the links were missing the forward slash / and they were not working. They are now working.


 * Trove does crash from time to time due to heavy loads, so that may have been the reason the links didn't work. I am not sure I understand your concern about missing slashes. Generally the structure of a URL is

http://domain/tail

and those slashes are required (after the http and after the domain name) but what happens within the tail depends on the structure of their web server and its resolution method, so there may be none or dozens of slashes there. Persistent Trove URLs have this structure:

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68874348

What I think you are doing is constructing a Wikipedia citation using the Trove URL that you see in the browser address bar. That URL is unfortunately not guaranteed persistent (it's an artefact of a particular implementation). But the good news is that you don't need to construct any Wikipedia citation if you use Trove. When you are looking at any digitised newspaper article on Trove, you will see a little "i" symbol in a circle on the left-hand toolbar. Click on that little "i" symbol and you will get a list of ways to cite that newspaper article in popular formats. Scroll down to the bottom of the list and you will see the Wikipedia format citation. Just copy the Wikipedia format citation and paste it between a pair of tags in your Wikipedia article. It makes citing very easy (and, as an added bonus, ensures you use the correct URL). This is what it produces for the Murder of John Kensit newspaper article:

So it's one of those rare occasions when doing it right and doing it easy are the same thing! Kerry (talk) 04:56, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

This may now be correct but when I tried the original changed link, it didn't work.