User talk:Kwaaktime

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:25, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Sandbox citation redirect

Moved from User talk:Shalor (Wiki Ed) § Question regarding citations

Kwaaktime, where did you find the url for that citation in your sandbox? What's happening there, is called a redirect; it starts out at one page, namely http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/2018/01/14/mike-coates-seeking-conservative-nomination, and goes to another one instead: https://www.pembrokeobserver.com. Probably the old paper was renamed or bought out. Sometimes, the Internet Archive will have a copy of an url. I this case, they do; and if you go to this url, you will find a copy of that article.

What you should do in this case, is rewrite the citation using the {{cite news}} template. Be sure to add the params |url=, url-status=dead, |archive-url=, and |archive-date=. (Another possible template is {{cite web}} but {{cite news}} is probably better in this case.) Try making the change yourself, and if you need help, feel free to {{ping}} me, or User:Shalor (Wiki Ed). Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 02:03, 1 November 2019 (UTC)