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Link rot is a major problem for the English Wikipedia, more so than for other websites, since most external links are used to reference sources.Some of the dead links are caused by content being moved around without proper redirection, while others require micropayments after a certain time period, and others simply vanish.
The Wayback Machine is a service which can be used to cite archived copies of web pages used by articles. This is useful if a web page has changed, moved, or disappeared; links to the original content can be retained.
Some organizations actively seek these domains and "usurp" them to create spam and scam sites. To repair an external link to one of these sites from Wikipedia, remove the link and replace it with an archived version of the original as described at Wikipedia:Link rot/Usurpations. There is an automated system for usurping entire domains.
The Wayback Machine is a service which can be used to cite archived copies of web pages used by articles. This is useful if a web page has changed, moved, or disappeared; links to the original content can be retained. This process can be performed automatically, using the web interface for User:InternetArchiveBot.
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past.
Basically the wayback link which is saved is a totally different article than the URL that was input, except the headline is the same as the input url. The article numbers and dates are not the same, so it isn't a case that the author of the article edited it to be something else.
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The content of any webpage may change at any moment, or disappear completely. To ensure link accessibility and stability, please consider pre-emptively adding an archive URL from an archive source such as the Internet Archive or WebCite. Wikipedia citation templates all allow for archive information to be included along with the original reference.