User talk:Cthwikia

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October 2014

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not remove citations or information sourced through citations simply because a link to a source is not working, as you did to Chris Alexander (editor). Dead links should not be deleted. Instead, please repair or replace the link, if possible, and ensure properly sourced information is retained. Often, a live substitute link can be found. Links not used as references, notes or citations are not as important, such as those listed in the "External links" or "Further reading" sections, but bad links in those sections should also be fixed if possible. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:38, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

It goes beyond not working or being reapaired. There is no way to repair the link since the site itself is completely gone.Cthwikia (talk) 15:45, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

It doesn't matter. Please read WP:DEADLINK. Do not remove dead links. Dead links can sometimes be recovered, and the fact that a valid, verifiable citation once existed is good enough to show that the statement is supported. If you continue to remove dead links, you can be blocked for disruption. Please do not do this. Instead, try to find a working archive link of these articles. I check the Wayback Machine, but it seems as though a robots.txt is blocking their archival service. Maybe another internet archival service has archived these links. If you wish to tag them with {{dead link}}, that's fine. But you must not remove valid citations that simply no longer load in your browser. This is contrary to WP:KDL. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:14, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm I being threatened here? Its misleading to put up phantom cites from a defunct website. There is no evidence that these links even existed. Where's the proof? This is very misleading because its simply diverting people to another site (myself included), and i don't like being had or mislead by redirected url's. There is no internet archival site that contains these citations. These citations simply don't exist anymore on any browser. They cannot be recovered because they dont exist anymore. Are you upset because you put those citations up yourself and you can't back these cites anymore or were you involved with the website Fearnet that is no longer active?Cthwikia (talk) 18:26, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Look, you can make as many accusations as you like. I don't care. The point is that you're violating WP:KDL. If you continue, you can be blocked. That's not a threat; that's a statement of fact. If you disagree with how Wikipedia does things, then raise the issue at WP:VPP or WT:LINKROT. Yes, the entire site is gone, but that's not a good enough reason to remove a valid citation. There are Internet archives that keep old copies of websites available, and sometimes websites come back. If it offends you, then I suggest you try to find an archived copy of the story or tag it with {{dead link}}. I don't really care what you do as long as you don't remove the citations. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 19:41, 20 October 2014 (UTC)