MEpedia:Link rot

Link rot refers to the tendency of external websites to move, change or remove content, leaving MEpedia links to them as dead links. For this reason, where possible it's best to use inline references (footnotes) that include detailed information about the content, like title, author(s), date published and date accessed, rather than solely linking to content via external links. In the event of link rot, these details will give future MEpedia readers and editors the best chance of finding the content again (for instance, via the Internet Archive).