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Active tasks

Archiving dead links via Internet Archive (ADL, MCD, MDY, RDT)
Converting citation urls pointing to archived copy to archive fields (U2A, A2U, MAD)
Remove incorrect Wayback usage from citation fields (RWF)
Converting {{Wayback}} template to preceding citation's archive fields (W2A)
Move links from author/editor fields to author/editorlink= (ALA)

Task explanation[edit]

This is an extension of Converting citation urls to archived copy to archive field. Basically, editors in addition to using archive.org for main |url=, also sometimes treat other fields as if the citation is to Wayback. That is only fine for material made/published by Wayback (hence this is done only with task 4).

So: When moving archive url from |url= to |archiveurl=, also:

  • Remove |publisher= and/or |work= field that contains (wayback|internet\s*archive|web\s*archive|archive-?it|archive\.org|web\.archive)
  • Remove |format= field that contains (archive|wayback)

Will be expanded if/when I find new cases.

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