Link rot: Dead links and the Wayback Machine

More broadly, I think there should be a job where every link submitted to MB should be submitted to the various web archival projects for indexing. See MBS-9009.

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… Including all links used in edit notes.

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Just a PSA: last.fm deprecated all its label and venue pages six months ago. They can no longer be accessed.

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Could you tell us more about this? It sounds great!

Archive Team has a small bit on their wiki entry for MusicBrainz:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=MusicBrainz#Archive_Team_efforts

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