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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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Well, you obviously can't cite a dead link. What you do is cite the live link that you have utilized in your research, followed by (seen 20 Oct 2017) or some such thing. It is not the researcher's responsibility to keep a website the same over time.
An analogous problem for the researcher is posed by ebooks. We were taught to cite a book by author, title, publisher (and weirdly, sometimes city), year of publication, and page number. But increasingly there are no page numbers. Locations IMHO are useless. So the rather unsatisfactory solution has been to cite the chapter title. Wouldn't work for À la recherche du temps perdu, but good enough for government work in most cases.