User talk:Marchjuly/Archives/2022/October

  

Question from Samnaderi (15:31, 14 October 2022)

Hello, I was wondering if I could use archiving sites other than The Wayback machine (e.g., https://archive.ph/) for archiving URLs in citations? (btw, this is my first question) --Samnaderi (talk) 15:31, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Samnaderi. I believe that it depends on the site you want to use since some external links are blocked from being added to pages by the Wikipedia software. Try taking a look at Help:Archiving a source and Wikipedia:List of web archives on Wikipedia for some general information to see whether the site you want to use is mentioned anywhere. Chances are that if you can add the link to any page (try doing so in your user sandbox) without be stopped by the software, then it's most likely OK to use from a technical standpoint. Whether it's OK from a WP:RS standpoint is a separate matter though and may need to be resolved through article talk page discussion. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:16, 15 October 2022 (UTC)