User talk:Ropar

Hi Ropar, Welcome to SourceWatch. Thanks for spotting the dead link in the India's oil industry page. While we prefer not to have dead links on Sourcewatch pages there are three alternatives to deleting the reference entirely. First, do a search (for example on the article title) and see if alternative links are available. Sometimes pages have been archived in the Internet archive (see www.waybackmachine.org). Second, if a websearch turns up nothing, in some cases it may be better to leave the reference on the page but remove the old url. That way, if the article is indexed in other online news archives for subscribers (such as Nexis etc), researchers can still track it down to see if it is of interest. Third, on some occasions it may be better to relocate the deadlink to the 'talk' page (accessed by clicking the 'discussion' tab in case another editor can locate it and reinstate it to the article page.

If you have any queries on editing SourceWatch, feel free to drop me a line: my email is at the foot of the pages. With thanks --Bob Burton 18:15, 26 August 2007 (EDT)