id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8607 Wikipedia:Link rot - Wikipedia .html text/html 4439 512 71 For other uses, see Wikipedia:Citing sources ยง Preventing and repairing dead links. Like most large websites, Wikipedia suffers from the phenomenon known as link rot, where external links become dead, as the linked web pages or complete websites disappear, change their content, or move without HTML redirection. This presents a significant threat to Wikipedia's reliability policy and its source citation guideline. Avoid bare URLs. Use citation templates such as {{cite web}} for citations, and {{webarchive}} for external links sections. Storing the entire text of the source is not appropriate under fair use policies, so choose only the most important portions of the text that most support the assertions in the Wikipedia article. If the dead link includes enough information (article title, names, etc.) it is often possible to use it to find the Web page at a different location, either on the same site or elsewhere. Wikipedia:Citing sources#Preventing and repairing dead links ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8607.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8607.txt