User talk:EllieNowels

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Thank you! I will have to study all this info. I signed up to repair some broken links, but it looks like there is more to it than that. I do see I should leave the reference even if the article has moved. It looks like I need to figure out how to retrieve articles from the Wayback Machine. Does Retrieved (date) indicate that someone has done that already? If that link has gone dead, do I indicate that it's been re-retrieved? EllieNowels (talk) 19:59, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Retrieved" indicates the date the person who made that reference looked at the page. Often, you will find articles using citation templates, which in the wikitext editor look something like this: {{cite web|last=Doe|first=Jane|title=Something…. In the visual editor, which you appear to be using, it means that when you click "Edit" on a citation, a form pops up with different fields for the information about the source. In this case, you should add the fields "Archive URL" and "Archive date" (or in wikitext, archive-url and archive-date), and fill in the URL for an archived copy of the page, and the date that copy was made.

Not all articles use citation templates, however. On an article that does not, when you click "Edit" on a footnote, you will only see a single text box, into which the reference is entered as it will appear in the article. In this case, you can use the template {{webarchive}} to add a link to an archived copy. See the linked page for how to use that template; for more general information on using templates, see Help:Template. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 20:21, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]