Template talk:Webarchive

Quick reference

WP:WEBARCHIVES gives details of (all?) available web archiving services. This may be helpful when discussing this template and its Lua module.

Yeah I made that page, and this template, the template is largely up to date displaying those archives. But thanks for linking to that page it is relevant. -- GreenC 15:48, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Verbose shortdesc

The short description on this page is awfully verbose:

template for linking to web archiving services such as the Wayback Machine, WebCite and all other web archiving services

It's even redundant, with "web archiving services" mentioned twice.

Could we cut it down to this?

Template for linking to web archiving services such as the Wayback Machine

I tried to do it myself, but I can't see what's inserting the shortdesc since that text isn't present in the template itself, the module, or the doc page.

Thanks — W.andrea (talk) 14:31, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

likely comes from wikidata Q27850769.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:35, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Yup, that's done it! I edited it and it's reflected on Wikipedia. Thanks. — W.andrea (talk) 14:40, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Use class = cs1-maint ?

IMO, in {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120710075729/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/06/16_band_reunite.php|date=2012-07-10 }} → Deprecated link archived 2012-07-10 at archive.today, we should make use of class=cs1-maint (or similar) like the CS1/2 templates do

Compare

• Baron, Zach (June 9, 2009). "1.6 Band Reunite, Play NYC", The Village Voice. Deprecated link archived 2012-07-10 at archive.today. Retrieved April 27, 2010.

With

• Baron, Zach (June 9, 2009). "1.6 Band Reunite, Play NYC". The Village Voice. Retrieved April 27, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

I believe something like

• Baron, Zach (June 9, 2009). "1.6 Band Reunite, Play NYC", The Village Voice. Deprecated link archived 2012-07-10 at archive.today. Retrieved April 27, 2010.

This would make more sense and draw more action towards a replacement. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:59, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

<span class="cs1-maint";>Deprecated link archived 2012-07-10 at [[archive.today]].</span> will only 'work' as written when the article has cs1|2 templates to drag Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css into the picture. To ensure that your proposal works in the absence of ~/styles.css, this:

<span style="color:#085; margin-left: 0.3em;">Deprecated link archived 2012-07-10 at [[archive.today]].</span>

Deprecated link archived 2012-07-10 at archive.today.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 19:12, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Whatever css thingy is technically correct and makes the css gods happy. I'm not fussy there. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:20, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Addition of PreserveTube

I was wondering if PreserveTube (Q140566967) could get added to the list of sites? Pendonym (talk) 21:27, 15 July 2026 (UTC)