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Please don't delete deadlinks

It took 10 seconds to find a live link or the deadlink you removed from Artocarpus lacucha. If you can't be bothered to go and look for yourself, please leave alone. See this. Nick Moyes (talk) 20:00, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@Nick Moyes: Ok, fair enough, will do in the future. I'm curious...In your assuredly rare moments of introspection, do you ever wonder why you find scolding users who improperly delete four-year-old deadlinks to be a better use of your time than actually just plowing through the fixing of four-year-old deadlinks? You've never edited that page before, which gives me a really good chuckle to think about how you prioritize your life. Tomorrow, I'll have learned one infinitesimally-useful lesson about deleting deadlinks; you'll surely still be the guy that has some sort of bizarre alert set up to warn you to go and check whether the editor that just removed a deadlink from an External Links section of a rarely-visited page thought to verify that there wasn't a link to fill the deadlink with, repair said deadlink, and then brusquely nag the aforementioned user about how to properly delete deadlinks. I feel confident in the following: (i) You could have fixed a minimum of three deadlinks in the time it took you to play your little game here today (ii) Whatever justification you have cooked up in your head as to the value of your behavior is false, Quixotic (you chastised an IP address...that is cuckoo, my friend), and harmful to fostering more happy, engaged, and productive Wikipedians (and I seem to have heard that contributorship isn't exactly accelerating at WP) (iii) The true reason behind your behavior is some sort of inferiority complex that is assuaged by criticizing others. To be clear I take greater issue with your tone than with your content.

You're an engaged Wikipedian, and that makes you admirably altruistic. That said, we have one trip through life, Nick. You'll feel much better just before closing your eyes that final time knowing that you spent more time editing rather than castigating other contributors. I hope this helps you, and the many others that might have to read your lashings out in the future.

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