It was reported today on the German Wikipedia that the IABot mistakenly marks links as dead e.g. in this case where the link contains a template.
It is obviously bad practice to use dynamically created links as a reference, and we all agree that these links should be removed. Nevertheless, the IABot should not mark these links as dead but ignore them.
This is a known bug that will be getting fixed in version 2 of IABot. It will be able to resolve the template embedded in URL.
(In the cases which were reported, the template used was {{CURRENTDAY}}, which makes the generated link unsuitable as a reference. So these should be changed and not flagged.)
Makes sense. IABot will ignore links with templates instead. Should be easier to implement.