Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Newsletter/March 2021/Backlog

Articles containing a dead link

This is a fairly quick and straightforward maintenance task. Most of these have a reference with an external link that a bot tried to follow, found to be dead, and tagged with {{dead link}}. For medicine-related articles, many of these are references to journal articles where the journal site has since rearranged their URLs. If the reference already has a stable identifier (normally DOI, or a link to a free copy of the paper through PMC), you can just remove the dead URL and the template. The stable identifier will do. If the reference doesn't have a stable identifier, add one if possible, and/or update the URL (you can usually figure out the new URL with a few seconds on Google). There are currently a whopping 2220 WP:MED-tagged pages that also host at least one dead link, so I figured we could just start with the "A"s and see how we do.