Category talk:Articles with dead external links

Protected Pages

Antonio Bajamonti should be moved to the administrative backlog because it is protected and therefore cannot be edited by a regular user. CanadianNine (talk) 22:56, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link now fixed. 84user (talk) 22:55, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Solving dead link issue

We are working on the dead links issue here. We hope to solve this issue with a little help from the community. Thanks - Hydroxonium (H₃O⁺) 14:19, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Specifying the date the url was detected dead

Should we not use the tag {{Dead Link|date=11:04, Wednesday, December 25, 2024 (UTC)}} instead of {{Dead Link}} to mark a dead link to categorize it, as it is recommended here?--Rishidigital1055 (talk) 13:02, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Rishidigital1055: It's not recommended there. It only said that because you altered it without consensus. All of the cleanup templates - whether they be inline like {{dead link}} or banner like {{linkrot}} - share the common characteristic that the |date= parameter must be given a month and year. There is an established category structure based on that: see for example Category:Clean up categories from May 2014 or Category:Articles with dead external links. If you want to get the system changed, you should not unilaterally alter the guideline document, but instead seek consensus - for such a wide-ranging change, an WP:RFC should be raised at WP:VPR (at the very least). Bear in mind that a lot of templates will need to be altered, bots like AnomieBOT and well-used scripts like Twinkle will need to be changed, thousands of people will need to be re-educated, and a huge number of categories will need to be renamed. More at User talk:AnomieBOT/Archive 7#Please don't do this if there's already a date there! --Redrose64 (talk) 16:25, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]