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Removing the term Pirate Radio because it cannot be established if the transmission is licenced or not. At present all that is known is that the station is based in london, but the location of the transmitter is unknown.BaronVonchesto (talk) 17:30, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

--Jaban, Peter John-- I have removed a line which claimed that there were death threats. I could not find any except that there was one indicating that he did received death threats - from an Interview with London eneving Standard Tabloid, given by John Jaban himself (WP:EXCEPTIONAL) The removal of his claim that he was fired was also done based on the same, another assertion backed only by a tabloid report which was an interview report of the person concerned.RomeoPapaKing (talk) 05:17, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

About your edits to Radio Free Sarawak[edit]

Thanks for your contributions, especially for the cleaning up of the Radio Free Sarawak article. I have reinstated the "Arrests" section because it is verifiable in the online news portals. A dead link does not justify the removal of the Wikipedia information, as mentioned in this wiki page Wikipedia:Link rot. Here is the following quote:

"Do not delete cited information solely because the URL to the source does not work any longer. WP:Verifiability does not require that all information be supported by a working link, nor does it require the source to be published online."

You can actually copy the URL of the dead link into this website Internet Archive Wayback Machine to see what the page looked like before the link was dead or to search online if there is any other sources that substantiate the claim before you decided to remove the information. I know this can take a lot of time but I believe this is the only way that Wikipedia article can be improved over time and I have always been doing it this way.

Besides you are invited to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Malaysia/Members. Feel free to add your username there and to explore the articles that interests you. Feel free to ask questions as the Wikiproject Malaysia members are eager to help you. Welcome to Wikipedia again! Cerevisae (talk) 10:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Cerevisae and thank you for the instructive how-to guide on handling link rot on Wikipedia.

The page clearly describes the manner in which dead links can be handled by using the Way Back machine and webcitation wherever possible. However, in most cases where the dead link is not available through the way back machine or any other source, how would we independently verify the authenticity of the previously included link? This is my concern.

However, in our case, as you have shown the Way Back Machine has worked with bringing back the old and archived text of the article so that should be ok for our purpose.

Please note that my main concern was not with the dead link but with the quality of the sources themselves. As I understand it, Wikipedia's content guidelinse on identifying reliable sources and subsequent appraisal of the sources supporting the assertions under the section on "Arrests", I find Sarawakreport.org to be a primary source while Free Malaysia Today and Malaysia Chronicle are blogs and non-reliable sources unfit for inclusion on Wikipedia.

Hence I would recommend that they be removed to preserve the quality of this project. RomeoPapaKing (talk) 05:31, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

About the concern on the reliability of these news website, I can assured to you that at least Malaysiakini, Free Malaysia Today, and Malaysian Insider are reliable. Type the names of these news portals into Google search and you will find that they are all included in the Google News. On the other hand, in this article, Sibu by-election, 2010 Wikiproject Malaysia members have included sources such as Free Malaysia Today, Malaysiakini, and Malaysian Insider and the article also achieved the "Good article" status.

However, for Malaysian Chronicle, this is debatable since they always copied the Sarawak Report articles in full without any alterations and they do not appear in Google news.Cerevisae (talk) 12:13, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]