User:RivalRowan/QuickRefs
Every few years Wizards of the Coast updates their main website and it breaks all the reference links on the Wiki. In 2022 they did a major overhaul of the back-end database and deleted most of their own article archives. This had left the Wiki with a huge number of links leading to 404'd pages. [maxmakesmagic.com MaxMakesMagic] has corrected the vast majority of issues but some still linger.
To quickly retrieve Internet Archive links, you can append the URL in the {{DailyRef}} or {{ArticleArchive}} tag to the end of https://web.archive.org/web/https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/.
If there's no snapshot in the Internet Archive for that URL, try searching in Ormos.
In order to repair links using the {{DailyRef}}, {{ArticleArchive}} or {{WebRef}} format, you can append "|archiveurl=[Internet Archive URL]|archivedate=[date of snapshot]" to the end of the tag, inside the end curly brackets ("}}").
Historical captures
Sometimes you may need to manually hunt down an article. To access older versions of magicthegathering.com:
- www.magicthegathering.com
- 2000 May 20 - http://web.archive.org/web/20000520093417/http://www.magicthegathering.com/
- 2000 Nov 10 - http://web.archive.org/web/20001110134300/http://www.magicthegathering.com/
- www.wizards.com/magic/
- 2000 Nov 10 - http://web.archive.org/web/20001110014600/http://www.wizards.com/magic/
- 2002 Jun 21 - http://web.archive.org/web/20020621063458/http://www.wizards.com/MAGIC/
- www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/welcome
- 2002 Jan 19 - http://web.archive.org/web/20020119225509/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/welcome
- 2002 Aug 02 - https://web.archive.org/web/20020802154340/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/welcome
- 2002 Dec 03 - https://web.archive.org/web/20021203012457/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/welcome
- 2003 Oct 01 - https://web.archive.org/web/20031001192923/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/welcome
- 2004 Feb 02 - https://web.archive.org/web/20040202041202/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/welcome
- 1999 Oct 03 - https://web.archive.org/web/19991003121221/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/welcome.asp
- 2005 Aug 07 - https://web.archive.org/web/20050807014857/http://wizards.com/magic/welcome.asp
- 2005 Aug 08 -
- 2008 Aug 27 - https://web.archive.org/web/20080827075810/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Default.aspx
WPN captures
Some information, such as product descriptions, is only provided to WPN stores. To access older versions of the WPN website:
- wpn.wizards.com
- 2014 May 20 - https://web.archive.org/web/20140520113920/http://wpn.wizards.com/en
- 2019 Mar 30 - https://web.archive.org/web/20190330104005/https://wpn.wizards.com/en
Non-monthership websites
- The Duelist Online
- 1996 Dec 19 - https://web.archive.org/web/19961219054237/http://www.wizards.com/Duelist_Online/Welcome.html
- MTGnews.com
- The Magic Dojo