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Originally Posted by PeterT
How do you handle dead Links, or cited pages that undergo massive content changes
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If you are writing something formal, just use whatever Style Guide you follow (Chicago, MLA, [...]).
In Non-Fiction, this is partially why citations tend to be verbose with title + author + publisher + original link + publication date + access date + DOI + [...].
They typically try to give you enough information so in the future, a reader could try to piece things together and/or find a duplicate source.
For example, let's say there was a book from the late-90s which cited an article on the New York Times website. The original link was long dead (the redirects probably worked over a few redesigns, but not after a spaghetti nest of 20+ years)... but since I had the article title and author, I could just pop into a search engine and type "title author site:nytimes.com".
Original Links + Access Dates are important, because you may be able to use something like Archive.org to see the site on that exact date (or near enough). As an example, Archive.org has been scraping all the top news websites hourly for years and years, it would be tough for an article to slip through the cracks.