[seqfan] Re: Bad A139250 Links

[P. Michael Hutchins]

How could one determine whether an article at a candidate replacement URL
is the same as the article that was pointed to by a broken URL, given that
the latter is - by construction, unavailable?

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:

> About fixing bad links, basically what you should do
> is edit the link, and change the URL to the new version, while retaining
> all the other information.
> And at the end you could say something like [Link corrected by ~~~~]
>
> That's when you can find exactly the same aiticle.
>
> But if you can find only an approximate copy, then put
> [broken link?]
> after the one that seems broken, and right after it make a
> link to the newer version, with something like
> [Probably the same as the above]
> after it.
> (In this case you would not sign what you did)
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> I'll add this to the FAQ on the OEIS Wiki
>
>
>
> Best regards
> Neil
>
> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
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>
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:24 AM, P. Michael Hutchins <pmh232 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thank you, Brendan and Michel, for your helpful replies.
> >
> > Sorry that I wasn't clear with my question:  What I meant to ask is
> what's
> > the policy for fixing bad links.  I'm rather gunshy about blithely going
> in
> > and editing stuff.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:51 AM, <michel.marcus at free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Maybe you could drop a mail to
> > >
> > >    - scoskey at boisestate.edu
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > MM
> > >
> >
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