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Originally Posted by DaleDe
yes, I run into the same problem in our wiki. My solution is to use Archive.org to provide a link. I am not actively trying to fix all the pages but if a link is really important I go to archive and find it.
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Same thing occurs at Wikipedia, they have a whole page dedicated towards explaining different methods to mitigate Link Rot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot
I remember when I was cleaning up + updating a lot of citations, I ran into this problem. Lots and lots of dead links in citations.
A lot of videos are also referenced, and get pulled down for copyright reasons, locked behind region restrictions, or just get deleted over time (user account taken down, user took the video down, made it private, etc. etc.). These need to be seriously archived as well, especially since Youtube gives you absolutely no indication what the Title + User of the taken down video was.