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The only reason why I added it was because his Spanish rank was already there. If there is no source, remove both the Spanish rank and allegiance, my mistake. The Madras (talk) 10:21, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for all the extra work you are doing to improve Grim Fandango, particularly in light of the upcoming remastered version. --MASEM (t) 17:13, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Masem, thank you for your very kind note. It means a lot coming from you. I have seen how you have been an active and responsible contributor in keeping up the quality of the article. I appreciate you taking the time to send this message. Indeed, it is exciting to hear that a remastered version is in the works, by no other than Tim Schafer. There is talk that they will be releasing much more information on "the making of" the original game, and I look forward to having the article expanded and enriched by that new info when it comes out, as well as all the new reactions by the press. In the meantime, I am trying to make any enhancements possible to reflect the quality of the game, and yes, prepare for the new release. Thank you. (talk) user:Al83tito 00:10, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you for your careful on-going review. I have followed your directions and I have edited the main page and talk page to include more details on the fair use rationale. Thank you. (talk) user:Al83tito 15:17, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.1

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"Archived copy"

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Adding archived snapshots when not needed, at Steampunk and possibly others

Hello. I've just reverted the addition, via IABot, of 84 archive snapshots at Steampunk, to references whose main URLs are still live, at the cost of an additional 13k bytes to the page. I view this as unnecessary. You, or perhaps someone else, has done this twice before to other articles on my watchlist, one of which I reverted and one I left alone. Could you please explain why you're doing this and what policy or guidance, if any, you're following? Dhtwiki (talk) 11:18, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Dear @Dhtwiki:. Thank you for reaching out and sharing your concerns. Most links eventually die out, aka Link rot. A solution to that is those websites be archived, and the have the archived page be cited. For the information in any wiki article to survive linkrot, it needs to be backedup. If you think about the long-term preservation of the information in any wiki article, webarchiving and citing is essential. Othewise, wikipedia rules states that information not properly backed up and verifiable by a cited source, may be deleted.

That is why Wikipedia rules also plainly state that: Editors are encouraged to add an archive link as a part of each citation, or at least submit the referenced URL for archiving, at the same time that a citation is created or updated. (Wikipedia:Link rot)

So let me ask three clarifying questions so I can better understand where you are coming from:

1) Do you think that the websites cited will remain available forever?

2) If you think that at some point will disappear, would it be good to have them archived and archived-cited? If eventually that will happen, what is the advantage of postponing the archive-citing to later?

3) Finally, I seem to see that part of your concern is article size. Why is this a concern?

Wikipedia rules do point to guidelines on optimal article sizes, but that "These rules of thumb apply only to readable prose (found by counting the words (...) and not to wiki markup size."

I would be eager to understand better your concerns.

My contribution is in goodwill. The archiving and cite-archiving of references has zero impact on the actual content/information of the article, while it improves citations by making them more resilient to linkrot, therefore making those citations more durable. Thank you.(talk) user:Al83tito 18:35, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for getting back to me. In your above quote of WP:LINKROT is the phrase "...at the same time that a citation is created or updated." This implies that the editor who sets up the reference, or who has carefully examined it, would be the one to set up the backup URL, not someone who is running a bot that makes massive changes, where the operator can't possibly be checking the output for accuracy (IABot has been known to point to useless snapshots or give other erroneous information, such as declaring a link permanently dead when it's not). I don't see your account anywhere on Steampunk's edit history and you should have at least one edit to your credit; however, am I safe in assuming that you're not otherwise active on that page?

With regard to your clarifying questions: 1) Who's to say that a particular archive site will live forever, or that links to its archive shapshots will forever work, or that Wikipedia won't radically alter the way its references work?; 2) When some links go dead, it's a good idea to have a backup to access; but for others, such as socio-economic data that is regularly updated, the better strategy is apt to be to link to the most recent update, rather than continue to access the old; 3) Optimal article size is in regard to what readers can comfortably read; but wiki-markup still affects how long it takes for a user's device to load and render a page, as well as making it more difficult for copy-editors, such as myself, to scan plain text in raw mode. Dhtwiki (talk) 16:49, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

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