Talk:Welsh Association of Sub Aqua Clubs

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I'll copy this from User talk:87.237.68.246:

As Wikipedia bases its content only on published information, I've reverted your changes to Welsh Association of Sub Aqua Clubs. If the WASAC changed status in January 2016, then there will be published reports of that, and you'll need to supply them to support your edits. --RexxS (talk) 15:00, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Now, Hywel Dyer, you know why your edit was reverted. Wikipedia's policy is outlined at WP:Verifiability and the onus is on you to state the reliable sources that support your edits. You may need to look at WP:Identifying reliable sources to see what is acceptable. A Google search didn't reveal any news of WASAC's demise, so please feel free to explain how anybody can tell whether what you state is true or a hoax? --RexxS (talk) 15:54, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

www.wasac.co.uk no longer exists.

Hywel Dyer (talk) 15:59, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

@Hywel Dyer: A dead link to a website is no evidence that an organisation no longer exists. Where's the published report of WASAC no longer existing? If you're so sure of that fact, all you have to do is give a link to the news of WASAC going out of existence. I'll happily turn that into a proper reference for you if needed, but if there's no source for that, then Wikipedia has to stick with what the reliable sources in the article state. We simply can't write content based on an editor's say-so. There are no exceptions to that. --RexxS (talk) 16:06, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

The website was still live on 11 Dec 2017 - https://web.archive.org/web/20171211195427/http://www.wasac.org/ - I'll reinstate the archived link for reference. --RexxS (talk) 16:23, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

The UK Sport website no longer holds the pdf document "SportingActivitiesandGoverningBodiesrecognizedbytheSportsCouncils.pdf" from October 2011. Although the Wayback Machine has a snapshot of the download page, it doesn't have a snapshot of the document. I've uploaded the pdf to Wikipedia under fair use and included it in the article to help with the discussion about WASAC's role and status. --RexxS (talk) 17:29, 10 January 2019 (UTC)