Opening post by LinkProspector
A lost-link alert can describe several different situations: a source article has disappeared, the link was edited out, the tool failed to fetch the page, or the destination changed after a migration.
My example triage sheet would record the source URL, former destination, current source response, whether the link is actually present, current destination response, and the proposed action. I would inspect the live pages before contacting anyone.
If the source still links to an old URL, the first action may be to fix our own mapping. If the editor intentionally removed the reference, there may be nothing useful to recover.
Which cases deserve outreach?
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