Template talk:Website defunct

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I saw this today used in ABCnews.com.co and note that it violates MOS:SMALL when used in an infobox, which seems to be the primary purpose (if infobox is what is meant by "sitebox"). I don't like having to really squint to see what something says, or to have to increase the browser font size to make something readable. I realize this is a variation of an existing template, but that should be fixed too somehow and certainly not proliferated further. Can't it just say (defunct) in normal font size. MB 00:14, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I wondered about that when I created the template. I don't see why the two templates can't both be changed in the way you suggest, I'll do it now. GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:19, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Preventing a link to domain name squatter

In the Kitchenware Records article, the infobox gives the website http://www.kitchenware.com , but that has been dead since 2014 and a domain name squatter took it over around 2022. If I use {{website defunct|1=http://www.kitchenware.com}} , it is marked as "(defunct)", but the useless hyperlink to a now unrelated business is still live. It seems there should be a parameter nolink for this template, and/or some guideline to present a historical URL that is now actively wrong. I wound up putting <nowiki> in the template to disable the link, maybe there's a better way

In the article's "External links" section I link to the last crawl of the company home page on the Internet Archive. Skierpage (talk) 08:12, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]