Forum:Formspring Shutting Down, We Cite It A Lot

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/15/4110196/social-question-answer-site-formspring-shut-down-march-31st

This is going to be a problem, because we cite J.E. Sawyer's Formspring for a lot of things. The solution that immediately comes to mind is changing all Formspring links to be Wayback Machine links, but since this is such short notice we're probably going to miss a whole bunch of them. What should we do? lavacano201014 (yell at me here) 07:27, 17 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Step one would be to copy/paste the content of each referenced reply into the Vault, so that instead of the link, we have the full response archived.
 * Step two would be to archive the entire JES Formspring by hand. Unless he'd be kind enough to export and publish his Formspring, this will take a bit of time.
 * Regards. Tagaziel 09:58, 17 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank Athena, he says he's going to export the Formspring. This is a serious relief. lavacano201014 (yell at me here) 05:26, 18 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I was about to say, Sawyer said he was going to export it some where, so we don't have to use waymachine. But get the actual reply from each formspring answer will probably be a good idea. Shadowrunner(stuff) 14:56, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Shouldn't we get the question for context?--15:32, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * That'd be useful. I'm not sure if it's necessary for all responses, though. Tagaziel 15:56, 18 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Agreed, the question doesn't need to be stated if it's a straight one to two sentence answer imo. Shadowrunner(stuff) 02:59, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Wookipedia has a lot of such issues with old content being deleted from sites. They have a template which adds a link to web.archive.org archived copy of a page. We can do the same. veryblackraven 00:02, 19 March 2013 (UTC)


 * We probably should do this as you never know when something cited is just going to disappear on you. Shadowrunner(stuff) 02:59, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know if we still want to do this, because apparently Formspring "has been saved and is now under new management" according to a header on the website. --Kastera (talk) 22:27, 20 May 2013 (UTC)