User talk:Sameerpalal

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Help me!
Please help me with... Good day

I hope you are doing great!

So, I did my first correction on a page but, it was removed! The old link was dead (404) and I added a fresh one that is 100% relevant and useful for the audience!

Can you please guide me on why the new link was removed from that page?

Although my account is old but I believe this was my first time making corrections on Wikipedia!

Waiting for your kind response.

Thanks so much Sameerpalal (talk) 23:12, 3 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I believe you are talking about This Edit. Please see the edit summary on the reverting of your edit: Undo of yours. You had no edit summary when you did it. Their revert says your edit did not explain what you were doing. That can be solved with an edit summary.  Please look at the bottom ot the Edit screen when you are adding.  Do you see "Edit summary" mentioned there?  Try making your correction again, but in the edit summary type something like, "Replacing dead link with new source" and then Publish your edit. If the new source you add is a good one, with an edit summary, maybe nobody will delete it. — Maile  (talk) 23:45, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but that source you added is just a blog and doesn't actually support the statement you attached it to. Furthermore, your attempt to alter the archiveurl was never going to work, since the retrieval key would need to change to reflect a new target. So I just deleted that sentence, since we don't have a suitable source for it.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 01:19, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * @Sameerpalal @: The old link still works for me so I restored it. I also added a working archive, just in case. As an aside, sportsintherough.com does not seem like a reliable source. Please establish consensus that it is reliable before using it again. Regards.—Bagumba (talk) 14:59, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Interesting. The original link to verbal commits still fails for me, but I can see the new archive.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 15:42, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I just checked again, and am not getting a response. Well, the archive is there, and I'm ambvivalent if someone just wants to switch to that as the the default.  It is verifiable by other sources, though perhaps would need multiple citations to supports each of the agencies that form the "concensus" ranking. Cheers. —Bagumba (talk) 06:05, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I think the standard is that a link that works sometimes is usually left in place for a while.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 06:17, 6 August 2020 (UTC)