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incorrectly adding archive.org uri for non dead uri
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • visual editing on [[:th:ผู้ใช้:ວາດານ/ทดลองเขียน]]
  • Click on "Cite" then "Automatic"
  • type <hindustantimes.com/kolkata/once-upon-a-time/story-y2YcMKtTbufxxbbjMsw23J.html>

What happens?:

  • creates citation with archive uri
<ref>{{Cite news |date=2011-04-13 |title=Once upon a time |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/kolkata/once-upon-a-time/story-y2YcMKtTbufxxbbjMsw23J.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250415220819/https://www.hindustantimes.com/kolkata/once-upon-a-time/story-y2YcMKtTbufxxbbjMsw23J.html |archive-date=2025-04-15 |access-date=2025-12-04 |work=Hindustan Times |language=en-us}}</ref>

What should have happened instead?:

  • create citation without archive uri

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Event Timeline

This is expected behaviour. Some website block us (either passively with anti-bot methods or deliberately) and as a fallback measure we check archive.org. Unfortunately it means can't determine if the website is legitimately dead or just blocking us in order to set the dead flag, so we opted not to set it at all, see discussion in: T374831