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User:Jay Mostly Fixes Linkrot

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hi it's me jay, mostly I fix linkrot

loosely organised projects

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I have a long term interest in internet archiving, and this has extended to my research at the Squirrel Ridge Observatory Centre. Linkrot, particularly when a domain is usurped with malevolent intent, is a threat to information and to security.

Squirrel Ridge is focused on Ontario, Canada, where our observatory is based.

reducing exposure to toxic linkrot

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waynecook (rotten waynecook.com)

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Cook's delightful Geocities epic succumbed to linkrot after his death in the late 2010s. Soon thereafter, likely due to the combination of no https:// and high citation rate to his static-site understructured text pages, the url was usurped. I do not recommend clicking any live links to waynecook.com for that reason.

Here's a list of articles within which I have eliminated outlinks and improved Cook's citation. Where it was not assigned a ref name, it has been tagged name=waynecook. Stylistically, I attribute authorship to Cook, Wayne and often include a plaque number with page= or sometimes even a full quote=. Presented in ascending edit order.

  1. Listowel, Ontario
  2. Tobermory, Ontario
  3. Wiarton, Ontario
  4. List of oldest buildings and structures in Toronto
  5. George Kennedy (businessman)
  6. Christ's Church Cathedral (Hamilton, Ontario)
  7. County of Brant, Ontario
  8. Brantford, Ontario
  9. Meaford, Ontario
  10. Norfolk County, Ontario
  11. Great Porcupine Fire
  12. Queenston, Ontario
  13. Port Elgin, Ontario
  14. Mitchell, Ontario
  15. Tara, Ontario
  16. Southampton, Ontario
  17. Stratford, Ontario
  18. Perth East, Ontario
  19. The Georgetown Boys
  20. Communities in Norfolk County, Ontario
  21. Milton, Ontario
  22. Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario
  23. Kitchener, Ontario
  24. Cambridge, Ontario
  25. Guelph, Ontario
  26. Buffalo Bill (who knew he had a Peel connection? Wayne did!)
  27. Albert Salter
  28. Preston, Ontario
  29. Galt, Ontario
  30. Howard Hillen Kerr
  31. West Perth, Ontario
  32. William Thomas (architect)
  33. Chatham Jail
  34. 1803 in Canada
  35. Port Ryerse, Ontario
  36. Erindale, Mississauga, Ontario
  37. Waterford, Ontario
  38. Poorhouse (a deviation from form)
  39. Aurora, Ontario
  40. Waterloo County, Ontario
  41. Airlie, Ontario
  42. John Galt (novelist)
  43. Belleville, Ontario
  44. Banda, Ontario
  45. Canada Company
  46. William "Tiger" Dunlop
  47. Henry Corby Jr.
  48. Springwater, Ontario
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