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I have come across a few examples, the most recent can be seen here, where a proposed edit attempted to fix a dead link. I improved the edit by choosing to use archive.org's webarchive of the page. Is this the preferred method? I figure it must be better than just linking to another blog which may (and most likely) eventually disappear. Any other best practices/approaches I should know about?

Also, here's a related post talking about the possibility of having some function internal to Stack Exchange that would search for and replace dead links with cached copies (archive.org/google cache)...interesting.

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  • Eithet works, frankly, as long as the original content is preserved.
    – user206222
    Commented Jun 20, 2013 at 0:07
  • I agree with original content being referenced with a cached page via archive.org. I somewhat disagree with replacing a broken web page with a different content page. The latter is a judgment which I feel should be left alone until we can tackle a cache policy of some sort.
    – Sun
    Commented Dec 2, 2014 at 22:49

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