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https://www.topspeed.com/ ..."SEO bait" content?

I have seen others. Should there be a list article?

Piñanana (talk) 19:30, 18 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

If you can't get independent third-party sources discussing websites excluded by Wayback Machine, then it is not noteworthy. Also, these questions belong to the WP:Reference desk. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 21:28, 18 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

search: excluded from the Wayback Machine

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/List_of_websites_excluded_from_the_Wayback_Machine/Partial_exclusions

Piñanana (talk) 21:48, 18 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

WP:Tertiary sources. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 21:52, 18 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

And once again, this page is not the place to discuss this. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 21:53, 18 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

"429 Too Many Requests nginx". This error appears every time i open up Web Archive since past month. Do you also see it? --~2025-31413-92 (talk) 11:26, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

can someone tell me why its down? TVShowsFan2005 (talk) 01:49, 15 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

maybe ask someone ~2026-10292-14 (talk) 01:49, 16 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

WP:FORUM | One Reaction was here. Got a complaint? 18:46, 5 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

I found early archives on the wayback machine and even a thread where users discussed old finds. I cited both in the article text currently citations 8 and 9. However per Help:CS1 errors the citations linked for the oldest archive will always be invalid due to the rules of Help:Citation Style 1. The current citation has an error for a malformed timestamp on the archive url. Just something I thought I would point out and put here on the talk page so that the article content does not get removed without reason. Let me know your thoughts and if you can find an older archive than the BBC web server page 1995 on the wayback machine.

year is earlier than archiver launch date of

• 1996 for archive.org

Lazypenguin4507 (talk) 20:21, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/ ~2026-17275-51 (talk) 19:49, 13 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

 Not done: according to the page's protection level, you should be able to edit the page yourself. If you seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 04:13, 14 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

I think it would be a fun idea if we included a photo of a device, preferably a desktop computer or laptop showing a web archive on the Wayback Machine of this article on this article. Any thoughts? Livingroom Productions (talk) 22:29, 6 June 2026 (UTC)Reply