Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Dead Link Repair

The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Description[edit]

This is a proposal for another maintenance-type project (like the Guild of Copyeditors or WikiProject Wikify). An old task I used to do (and sometimes, still do) is clean up link rot from Metacritic's overhaul last year. I thought to myself, "why isn't there a project dedicated to repairing dead links?" There is a total of 290,991 entries in Category:All articles with dead external links - that's just way too much, and I believe that forming a group of Wikipedians dedicated to repairing dead links would help to drastically knock that number down. Dylan620 ^{(t • c)} 01:25, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support[edit]

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

Dylan620 ^{(t • c)} 01:25, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
œ ^™ 06:24, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Wekn reven i susej eht ^{Talk• Follow} 10:22, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Question What other projects cover link repair — directly or indirectly — at the moment? --Klein zach 06:25, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Wikipedia:WikiProject External links. However, I believe that the problem is large enough to warrant being the single focus of a WikiProject. --Dylan620 ^{(t • c)} 09:45, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Maybe it would be a good idea to tell Wikipedia:WikiProject External links about this proposal? --Klein zach 12:29, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Done. --Dylan620 ^{(t • c)} 18:53, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea. I consider it especially important to fix dead reference links. There are a couple tools that allow you to quickly and easily check the Internet Archive for archived versions of dead links. See Wikipedia:Link rot#Tools. -- œ ^™ 06:27, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Wayback operation & external link fixing is big enough for its own project Wekn reven i susej eht ^{Talk• Follow} 10:24, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.