In the Wikipedia edit at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Geodetic_System&type=revision&diff=798709164&oldid=797802899 a site within the .mil top level domain was reported as dead, when it is actually operating just fine. I have read that sites in the .mil top level domain do not accept connections from outside the United States. Thus, the bot should be modified to not attempt to classify a site in .mil as dead unless it is know the bot is running with a US-affiliated IP address.
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In the Wikipedia edit at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Geodetic_System&type=revision&diff=798709164&oldid=797802899 a site within the .mil top level domain was reported as dead
World Geodetic System: Difference between revisions
- <ref>[http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/images/ww15mgh2.gif] {{dead link|date=May 2017}}</ref> + <ref>{{cite web |url=http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/images/ww15mgh2.gif |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-10-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923013646/http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/images/ww15mgh2.gif |archivedate=2008-09-23 |df= }} </ref>
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Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot
The bot did not mark the link as dead (the edit summary explicitly mentions this). It only added a secondary reference to the citation from archive.org, which helps in case the link does die at some point in the future.
The bot merely converted the {{dead link|date=May 2017}} syntax into the deadurl parameter, which may've looked like it was added it anew, but actually wasn't.
It performed the following two actions:
- Convert plain [.. link] {{dead link}} syntax to {{cite web|url= .. |deadurl=yes}}.
- Find an archived version of the resource and add it to the citation.