[seqfan] Re: Bad A139250 Links

[Neil Sloane]

Michael Hutchins,
May I request that you do not delete anything without explicit
permission from an editor-in-chief?

Best regards
Neil

Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com
Email: njasloane at gmail.com


On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 7:59 AM, P. Michael Hutchins <pmh232 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com
> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com
> >
> >
> > 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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