Talk:Gul Rahman

Please be more careful

I reverted this edit which removed links to the version of the references on the webcitation.org archive site.

The references were originally rendered as naked URLs. This is a highly problematic practice because they can't be replaced when they go 404. It is essential that all of our contributors make sure the references they use contain enough information that a dedicated reader can hunt down a paper copy, if the URL goes 404. At a bare minimum our references should include the name of the article, the date of publication, and the name of the publication. Author, and page number are also important, if they are known.

One of the references used here was to Yahoo News -- a news site that expires its pages after just a month or so. When I use a reference to a Yahoo News item, or fix a reference to a Yahoo News item, I always archive it on the webcitation site. Webcitation is sometimes overloaded. But the links are always availabe, when they are not overloaded, so it was a very serious mistake to remove them.

The edit summary of the wikipedia who removed these links said: "remove as the linked website can not be reached since a longer period - no reason to bother our reader with dead links". In fact "bothering our readers with dead links" was exactly what they were doing by providing only the naked URL to a Yahoo News page that will expire in a month. Geo Swan (talk) 16:59, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Please be more careful. I think you are a bit off topic here. Webcitation links are not always available. In fact these links are not reachable at all since days. I understand your good intention but as they do not work there is no reason to waste the time of our readers with not functioning links. IQinn (talk) 17:12, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Not available for days? Since I accessed the site to archive those references just three hours prior to your summary excision of them I suggest your recollection the site hadn't been available for days is not correct. Geo Swan (talk) 20:25, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

I do also see copyright issues with these links. Could you please point me to a place on Wikipedia where this kind of linking has been authorized? IQinn (talk) 17:17, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Using WebCite is an essay describing how to use webcitation.org in the "archiveurl" field of the {{cite}} templates. Geo Swan (talk) 20:25, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

See also User:WebCiteBOT, which has consensus to add webcitation-s automatically. Certainly if it can do it automatically, users are allowed to do it manually. --Cybercobra (talk) 21:31, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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