28.12.2015, 21:00, "James Heilman" <email clipped>: > Deadlinks are one of the most common ways of spamming Wikipedia. Paid > editors replace deadlinks with links to the spam site which now contains > the contain as it way copied from waybackmachine. Linking to waybackmachine > is thus superior. > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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Not necessarily disbelieving you, but can you point to a single, concrete example of a "paid editor replacing a deadlink with a link to the spam site copied from waybackmachine?" I'd like to see what you are talking about. Trillium Corsage _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
