Bahaipedia:Link rot

Link rot is what happens when websites or web pages that are referred to or linked to from Bahaipedia articles shut down or disappear permanently: the links go dead, i.e., they point to missing resources. Since the Internet is a dynamic collection of sites managed by different people and organizations around the world, those sites, and pages on them, naturally change. New sites and pages appear, and old ones disappear. Of course, this creates a problem for editors who link to those resources, especially if they use them as sources, and the onus is on them to make sure that their work continues to be verifiable by checking the links on their articles periodically to make sure that they are still live, and, if not, to find replacement links.

Thankfully, there are resources online that archive old pages in case they go offline. One of the most popular of these is the Wayback Machine hosted by the Internet Archive (archive.org). Generally, searching for the URL of a dead page will give one or more archives of that page. In the case of static resources such as news or scholarly articles, this will usually suffice. In other cases, trying one or more alternative archival sites may be necessary. If none of these yield useful results, it may be necessary to use web search engines, or check other sources in order to find useful sources.

See also

• Bahaipedia:Contributing to Bahaipedia

External links

• The Wayback Machine, hosted by the Internet Archive
• Wayback Machine alternatives