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To repair an external link to one of these sites from Wikipedia, remove the link and replace it with an archived version of the original as described at Wikipedia:Link rot/Usurpations.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. See WP:URLREQ to register all links in a domain for usurpation treatment.
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.
Link verification is performed on links which appear in <a> tags, as well as images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts, and Java applets. The program follows links to other pages, and checks the links on those pages also, so it is possible to check an entire site for broken links in one session.
Fix the broken links in the Featured Articles using the Checklinks tool - Looking for a third opinion on some of the links in the article that appear to be commercial firms. Trying to avoid an edit war.
With perhaps a hundred links in an article, it becomes an ordeal to ensure that all the links and references are working correctly. Even featured articles that appear on our main page have had broken links. Some Wikipedians have built scripts to scan for dead links.
Soft 404s are problematic for automated methods of discovering whether a link is broken. Some search engines, like Yahoo and Google , use automated processes to detect soft 404s. [ 3 ]
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If the citation contains multiple URLs (e.g. chapter-url and url) in a template, and only one is broken, you can use wiki comments like <!-- <your hidden explanation here> --> to explain which one is broken. If the article uses clickable footnotes, then this template should be placed just before the </ref> that contains the