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Dear Wikipedia collaborators,
I am aware that family members are normally not supposed to edit an article about a person. But I am confident that you will agree that it's fine to do so when it's a matter of fixing external links that no-one else could or would fix:
1. The link to the web page about he memorial service of of my late father Michael H. Jameson was added many years ago by another Wikipedia contributor. The link no longer works, since the page was hosted on my former employer's website and was deleted there when I left the company. The identical page is now hosted on the website of my own company, and no-one but me knows the web address. As long as the link is not fixed, users will be automatically and inadvertently directed to the main page of the website of my company, which is surely not consistent with Wikipedia's policies.
2. The link to the web page with a major biographical memoir by Martin Ostwald was similarly added by another Wikipedia contributor many years ago. It now yields a 404 error, because the website of the publication in question has moved. I am replacing the broken link with one that points to a relevant web page that at least grants limited access to the memoir. (The complete memoir appears to be no longer freely available on the web.)
If someone still believes that I shouldn't be allowed to make these changes, could they please revert my changes and then make the same changes themselves, given that the changes are obviously in the interest of all concerned? Anthony D. Jameson (talk) 20:35, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
