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Link rot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. A link that no longer points to its target, often called a broken ...
Set this to "yes" if you have tried unsuccessfully to find an archived copy, or a copy with a different URL. This will put the page in Category:Articles with permanently dead external links, and the annotation will be rendered as "[permanent dead link ]" instead of just "[dead link ]". Note that this currently will occur for any value ...
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This category helps keep count of the total number of articles with the {} template. They should all be in one of the dated categories. Please review WP:DEADLINK for current policy before editing the tagged dead links. See also Category:Articles with dead external links for a listing organized by month.
On May 29, four days after George Floyd died in police custody, the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, wrote an email to his staff, according to six current employees. In the email, a copy of which was ...
Marking dead links signals to editors and to link rot bots that this link needs to be replaced with an archive link. Placing {} also auto-categorizes the article into Articles with dead external links project category, and into specific monthly date range category based on |date= parameter.
This category keeps track of articles with the {} template that have the fix-attempted parameter set to "yes". These are cases in which someone has tried to fix the dead link by replacing it with an archive link, but no archive could be found. In these cases, it may be best to remove or replace the link.
For many citations (including print sources), the reference material still exists, and can still easily be found by its title, author, publisher and other metadata. Dead links should be repaired or replaced if possible, using the steps outlined at WP:DEADLINK and WP:DEADREF. You can participate in WikiProject External links