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saint_fiasco on Dec 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: In Defense of Inclusionism

I bet all those links weren't 404 errors in 2009. Which raises the question: How are external links in Wikipedia articles maintained? Is there some automated process that checks those links periodically to see if they are rotten?

Is that why Wikipedia hates external links?

bzbarsky on Dec 12, 2016 | [–]

> How are external links in Wikipedia articles maintained?

Until recently, "not very well". Recently, they have been doing https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/26/internet-archive-broke...

tptacek on Dec 12, 2016 | [–]

I'm sure they weren't 404s in 2009! It's not my argument that the links were added in bad faith.

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