User talk:Susan Welstead

Hello Susan and welcome! I saw your edit at The Blair Witch Project and your question in the edit summary. I checked ref#8 and it is a dead link. Internet links going dead are not unusual and our general procedure is covered at WP:DEADLINK. I checked at the Wayback Machine (http://archive.org] and didn't see the link saved there either. If I had found an archived version of the page, I would have added "archiveurl=" and "archivedate=" parameters to the citation templates, described in the documentation of those templates. If the link is gone and no archive can be found, for in-line citation links we basically trust in the editor who originally added the citation that it was correct. This is really not much different than when someone cites a book source, you can't immediately verify the cite is correct but with a little (or a lot of) work it should be possible. For instance you could contact ign.com directly to ask them for a copy from their own storage. There is also a dead-link template you can add I think, it should be mentioned in the DEADLINK guideline somewhere.

I haven't checked the other links you questioned, if they are the same situation, same guidelines. If not, feel free to ask me (here, I will keep watching your talk page for a while), or on the article talk page, or at the help desk. Regards and thanks for your contributions! Franamax (talk) 22:29, 21 April 2010 (UTC)