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| ::: I can make the changes. I'll try to get to it tonight. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 11:46, 18 August 2011 (EDT) | | ::: I can make the changes. I'll try to get to it tonight. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 11:46, 18 August 2011 (EDT) |
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| ::: Changes made. Just use "archive=Y" and it'll automatically link to Archive.org. (See: [[Faith]]) -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 15:05, 19 August 2011 (EDT)
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| :::: I was under the impression that this will be done by default to all the citations across the wiki, without any explicit, archive=Y statement. That would eliminate the need for someone to check each link for link rot. [[User:CylonU87|CylonU87]] 10:27, 20 August 2011 (EDT)
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| ::::: Nope, the template isn't "smart" enough to determine if the link is dead or not. It would have to be tested manually. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 10:42, 20 August 2011 (EDT)
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| ::::: Ah, I see what you are saying... we could do "backup link" as being linked Archive.org. However, if the link is truly dead, then the first link wouldn't work and would need to be updated manually anyway... -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 10:44, 20 August 2011 (EDT)
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| :::::: Unless you have a Bot to do that, doing that manually is crazy. Say we have a thousand links pointing to Syfy.com. Syfy does a website redesign and all those thousand links break on the same day. Having a backup link by default will at least give non editing visitors, something to refer to. [[User:CylonU87|CylonU87]] 10:51, 20 August 2011 (EDT)
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| ::::::: True enough. It's an easy change to make, and I should be able to implement it shortly. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 10:59, 20 August 2011 (EDT)
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