Wikipedia:Link rot/Usurpations

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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For other types of usurpation see WP:USURP.

Usurped domains are used by spammers, squatters, malware, SEO, phishing or other fraudulent activity. Typically they are legitimate domains that expired and were hijacked.

How to usurpify a citation

The following is a decision tree for each citation. It can be followed manually, or implemented algorithmically by bot.

  • Does the source URL have an archive available? If yes..
    • Is it in a CS1|2 template (eg. {{cite web}})? If yes..
      • Add |url-status=usurped, |archive-url= and |archive-date=
    • Is it a square-bracketed or bare URL? If yes..
      • Wrap the URL (with or without square brackets) in {{usurped}}
  • Is no archive available? If yes..
    • Can the citation be verified if the URL was removed (eg. newspaper or journal content off-line)?
      • Remove the URL and keep the citation
    • Is the citation unverifiable without a URL (eg. web-only content)?
      • Remove the entire citation per
        WP:V
        : unverifiable

Bots

Bots that can usurpify automatically with the above steps:

  • WP:URLREQ

See also

  • WP:JUDI
    - ongoing mass usurpation of expired domains across all Wikimedia projects