User talk:Wikiguy2015

I noticed quite a number of broken links on the South Korean won page. Please make this priority. Wikiguy2015 (talk) 10:28, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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June 2016
After making a few edits, I must say I never realized just how many pages had broken links that Wikipedia didn't detect. Perhaps the reason is this: if the website is down, Wikipedia will detect a broken or dead link, but if the site is up, if the page is a 404, there is no way to know that the link is bad.

What I started doing was going to Wikipedia pages and simply opening a vast number of external links to see if any are down.

December 2016
I reached my 100th edit some time ago. I'd probably be up to 1,000 by now if I started years ago when I first used Wikipedia. Better late than never. Wikipedia should try to create a program that visits the links on each page, waits to see if the page redirects, then flags it so we can put the correct url on the site. I only say this because most of the links I fix are not labeled dead link, so it's hard to determine what to fix. I mainly just land on a topic and open all 30 or so pages on Chrome. Lucky for me I have a fast computer, and I just look for 404 errors or page not found etc. If it's not on Archive.org or Archive.is, I try to find another site that has the text and matches the date of the original article, so far, I've been fortunate and haven't had to remove more than a few links because the content was nowhere to be found. Thanks everyone for everything you do to keep this community growing!

Wikiguy2015 (talk) 13:07, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Replacing dead external links
Hello Wikiguy2015, thank you for your efforts to fix dead links in Wikipedia articles. However, please avoid using republished documents on commercial sites. First of all, company A republishing documents from company B without their permission can be a copyright violation. Direct links to such copyvios are entirely prohibited anywhere on Wikipedia (except the discussion of potential copyright problems itself). Secondly, such hosting of documents on commercial sites is a popular SEO tactic to get additional web traffic to these sites. Archive links to a non-promotional mirror service like Internet Archive (or other similar sites) are preferable. I am sure you are trying to fix these links in good faith, so just wanted to point out these possible issues - we should try to keep the usage of commercial and promotional links to the absolutely necessary minimum. Hope these tips are helpful, please feel free to ping me if you have any further questions or want to discuss a specific case. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 21:54, 1 June 2017 (UTC)


 * By the way, you can use Template:Webarchive to replace a dead raw link with its archive version (or convert it into a proper web citation first, and then use "archiveurl" and "archivedate"). GermanJoe (talk) 22:11, 1 June 2017 (UTC)