Timeline for Is it worth editing old posts to add links for references?
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| Nov 22, 2016 at 17:42 | comment | added | LSpice | @DavidRoberts, thank you! I hate looking at an old answer and seeing a linkrotted reference to "these notes", which points to the old location of someone's web page …. It's much harder to track down informal notes, especially without a title or description (even knowing the author), than a paper! | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 8:54 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | I even go so far as to edit the context of the link: add a full human-readable reference. Or if there is merely a link (say just an arXiv link, or a doi, or an opaque publisher's-platform url) then I give it some detail so people can recognise the paper without clicking through. | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 15:27 | history | answered | Joel David Hamkins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |