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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Ifly6 (talk | contribs) at 17:10, 20 September 2023 (→Archives). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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I'm sure you are well-intentioned, but please stop automatically adding archives to every citation. When you do that it adds archive links even when the archive is useless. In particular, the archive at web.archive.org is not capable of archiving the actual content of books on Google Books; so those links never preserve the relevant content of the page.

If you want to add archives to every link "just in case", at least manually remove the archives from citations where the url is for Google Books. That would avoid padding Wikipedia articles with excess bytes that aren't helpful to readers or editors. It would probably be better not to archive every link in the first place, since it's a waste of the Wayback Machine's resources to create, store, and host an unhelpful archived webpage even if the archive link is manually removed from Wikipedia. – Scyrme (talk) 16:45, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This user has been informed of how bot-added archive links are useless, especially for Google Books and other paywalled sources, multiple times. 1, 2, 3, 4. Ifly6 (talk) 17:07, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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