User talk:Matthew stebbins

Tip: How to "date" an incident mentioned in a printed newspaper
When the "date" of a reported incident is not explicitly mentioned in an article but the "day of the week" is, you can still identify the date of incident by checking the date of publication against a perpetual calendar tool for that year. Back in the days when newspapers were delivered on paper, and didn't "linger" like online news articles do, it was considered sufficient to say "it happened last Tuesday" and everyone knew what that meant. Just take the date of the article and go back to the prior "Tuesday" (or whatever day of the week applies). Normal Op (talk) 17:31, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Tip: How to find an archived copy of a dead URL
If you are checking citations in Wikipedia and find one that no longer gives the intended article (a 'dead link'), then you can always try to find a backup copy with [the Wayback Machine] and plug in the old URL. Sometimes you can find the same article near the time it was last accessed. Normal Op (talk) 17:56, 17 September 2019 (UTC)