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The template can verify that dates in URLs for Wayback, WebCite, and Archive.is match the date in the |date= argument. If the dates do not match it will display the date from the URL, add a red warning message "date mismatch", and add the article to the warning tracking category.
The Internet Archive provides a browser add-on that can be used to easily access pages on the Wayback Machine for the currently viewed site, along with options to save a copy of the page to the Wayback Machine. Currently, versions of the add-on are available for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.
The Wayback Machine's archiving bot faithfully copies these useless pages into its archive. I think this rules out any fully-automated use of these Wayback Machine links, as only a human can decide whether the archive page is a useful reference. -- John of Reading 07:42, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
The 'How To' of Using the Wayback Machine for the purposes of updating dead links with an archive is too difficult and could use such a Wikimedia-run archival site as a long-term improvement to this process. Sorry that I'm not a frequent editor and don't have the time to find the exact right place to post this feature request.
This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Wayback}}). Any accidental transclusions will be automatically substituted by a bot. Any accidental transclusions will be automatically substituted by a bot.
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.
For example, styling from a separate CSS file is converted to inline CSS styling, embedded in the HTML source code. Archived pages are initially served through their short URL format, an identifier with five case-sensitive alphanumerical characters and four characters on early captures from 2012.
This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set.; These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.