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 ===Archived citations===
-To maintain verifiability for our articles, archiving these citations are crutial in case websites go offline temporarily or permanetely (also known as [[wikipedia:Link rot|link rot]]). Here are resources for archiving websites yourself or acquiring past archives:
+{{Main|Projects:Archive everything}}
-*[https://archive.org WayBack Machine (archive.org)] - Most trustworthy resource for website archives
+To maintain verifiability for our articles, archiving these citations are crucial in case websites go offline temporarily or permanently (also known as {{Wplink|link rot}}). Here are resources for archiving websites yourself or acquiring past archives:
+*[https://archive.org WayBack Machine (archive.org)] - The most used and trustworthy resource for website archives.
 **Websites retain interactable aspects
-**Some websites such as Twitter cannot be archived by this resource.
+**Some websites such as [[X]] cannot be archived by this resource, or are [[List of companies that block Internet Archive|specifically excluded]] (''e.g.'' [[Bambu Lab]])
-*[https://archive.today archive.today] - can archive most websites
+**Honors [[DMCA]] take-down requests (see [[Internet Archive#Archived website removal]])
-**Websites are shown as snapshot; cannot be interacted with completely
-**Good for archiving Twitter urls or websites that do not load with the WayBack Machine.
+*[https://ghostarchive.org/ Ghost Archive (ghostarchive.org)] - An English alternative.
-**Recently, this website has come under fire for [https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-after-alleged-ddos-attack/ using Captchas to DDoS critics] of the site maintainer and altering a small amount of captures. That does not mean the resource is 100% not to be trusted, but don't use this one resource alone (more archives are better than one/none).
+**Can archive nitter.net URLs to archive Twitter/X posts with comments included.
-*[https://megalodon.jp/ megalodon.jp] - Japanese alternative to archive.today
-*[https://ghostarchive.org/ Ghost Archive (ghostarchive.org)] - additional alternative in English
+*[https://megalodon.jp/ megalodon.jp] - A Japanese alternative. Some web browsers, such as [[Mozilla Firefox]], have a built-in web page translation function
-**Can archive nitter.net URLs to archive Twitter posts with comments included.
+**May have a better result if experiencing trouble with both the Wayback Machine and Ghost Archive.
+*[https://preservetube.com/ PreserveTube (preservetube.com)] – Used for archiving YouTube videos
+**While the WayBack Machine might have some older videos archived, that is often not the case for newer and larger sized videos.
+*[https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/collection Australian Web Archive] - For Australian websites specifically.
+'''IMPORTANT:''' Archive.today is no longer used for archiving due to its owner {{Wplink|Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Archive.is RFC 5|weaponizing the website}} against a blog writer, which involved exploiting unknowing users to initiate {{Wplink|DDoS}} attacks and editing the content of archived pages.
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