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Published citation style guides

Citation Style APA MLA Chicago Harvard Vancouver IEEE AMA Bluebook CS1
No date formatting n.d. (omit) n.d. no date [date unknown] (omit) date unknown (omit and use last visited date) n.d.
Access date formatting Retrieved Accessed Accessed accessed [Accessed] Accessed: Accessed (last visited) Retrieved
Archive date formatting Replaces the URL Replaces the URL Archived ... at Replaces the URL ? ? Replaces the URL [URL] Archived from


Existing documentation overview

  1. 186K annual pageviews
  2. Does mention "Content drift" but in a glossary
  3. Does not mention |url-status=deviated
  4. Does not describe the process for locating drifted content
  5. Does not cover news tickers

Wikipedia:Archive your sources (essay)

  1. 1K annual pageviews
  2. Does not mention "Content drift"
  3. Does not mention CS1 parameters
  4. Does not describe the process for locating drifted content
  5. Does not cover news tickers

Wikipedia:Verifiability (policy)

  1. 1,107K annual pageviews
  2. Does not mention "Content drift"
  3. Does not mention CS1 parameters
  4. Does not describe the process for locating drifted content
  5. Does not cover news tickers

Wikipedia:Citing sources (guideline)

  1. 711K annual pageviews
  2. Does not mention "Content drift" (does have the section Wikipedia:Citing sources § Preventing and repairing dead links with the shortcut WP:DEADREF)
  3. Does not mention CS1 parameters
  4. Does not describe the process for locating drifted content
  5. Does not cover news tickers (says, "Date you retrieved (or accessed) the web page (required if the publication date is unknown)")

Help:Using the Wayback Machine (help)

  1. 43K annual pageviews
  2. Does not mention "Content drift"
  3. Does not mention |url-status=deviated
  4. Does not describe the process for locating drifted content (does have the section Help:Using the Wayback Machine § Archive close to a date and time
  5. Does not cover news tickers

Wikipedia:Build content to endure

  1. 3K annual pageviews
  2. Does not mention "Content drift"
  3. Does not mention CS1 parameters
  4. Does not describe the process for locating drifted content
  5. Does not cover news tickers

Template:Cite web/doc (doc)

  1. 4K annual pageviews
  2. Does not mention "Content drift"
  3. Does mention |url-status=deviated ("deviated – selects |archive-url=; used when |url= is still live but no longer supports the text in a Wikipedia article")
  4. Does not describe the process for locating drifted content
  5. Does not cover news tickers

Template:Cite news/doc (doc)

3K annual pageviews

  1. Does not mention "Content drift"
  2. Does mention |url-status=deviated ("deviated – selects |archive-url=; used when |url= is still live but no longer supports the text in a Wikipedia article")
  3. Does not describe the process for locating drifted content
  4. Does not cover news tickers

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers (guideline)

298K annual pageviews

  1. Does not mention "Content drift"
  2. Does mention CS1 parameters but not |url-status=}
  3. Does not describe the process for locating drifted content
  4. Does not cover news tickers

Discussions

Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 78 § Current version of page no longer contains cited facts. url-status=?
Summary→URL status values are discussed for links that are live but host different content; "deviated" is suggested.
Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 84 § url-status = deviated
Summary→When a deviated link becomes a dead link, remove "|url-status=deviated". No change in output.
Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 96 § clean up usurped / unfit / deviated
Summary→Several participate in a discussion around confusion and mistakes with citations.
Module talk:Footnotes/Archive 3 § "n.d.a" vs. "n.d. a"
Summary→CS1 and the shortened footnote templates accept appended letters in the format of "n.d.x" for multiple undated citations to the same author. They don't accept "n.d. x" (with a space, as an editor suggests) or "n.d.-x" (with a hyphen, as APA suggests).

Observations

  • WP.
    Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia anyone can edit.
  • EM.
    Readers are asked to trust content in reputable publications based on their faith in the known author, peer reviewers, editorial staff, and institution publishing the work.
  • OR.
    Wikipedia does not publish original research. We are not asking readers to trust content that by definition can be written by anyone.
  • RS.
    We are asking readers to trust the reliable sources cited in the article.
  • NS.
    Published style guides for traditional publications permit citing what the APA calls "a nonrecoverable source" such as a personal email or locally saved copy of a dead link.
  • CS.
    Wikipedia guidelines ask editors to "remove hopelessly-lost web-only sources", treat the previously cited content "as unverified", and in some cases to remove it.
  • US.
    Wikipedia is generally considered an unreliable source. Students are advised, "If you do start with Wikipedia, you should make sure articles you read contain citations–and then go read the cited articles to check the accuracy of what you read on Wikipedia."
  • RJ1.
    Because Wikipedia is a user-generated encyclopedia that is considered unreliable, editors place a greater importance on citations than many conventional publications.
  • RJ2.
    Unlike conventional publications, Wikipedia cannot ask its readers to trust the author, peer reviewers, editors, or publishers of any particular article, since articles can be written by anyone. Thus, Wikipedia broadly does not accept nonrecoverable sources.
  • RJ3.
    Wikipedia has a unique need to preserve sources to an extent not covered by published style guidelines.
  • RJ4.
    Wikipedia has technical solutions available to cite content that may not just become dead, but to cite sources that may experience "content drift" so that the nature of what is present at the URL changes.
  • RJ5.
    The technical solutions are not well-documented. They are also not well understood by many editors.