How to fix a dead link in Wikipedia?

Let us fix some dead links in Wikipedia.

What are Dead Links?

Links disappears, address changes, pages are getting modified everyday, some are even removed while new information are added. With so many things getting edited everyday dead links are formed innumerably. Dead links or the broken links are caused due to the removal of pages linked to or with the modification of the web page address.

How to fix dead links in Wikipedia?

When there is a provision that anyone can edit Wikipedia so there are numerous pages which are grounded with dead links. Though they are very easy to find. You can edit this dead links very easily if you wish to.

Check the Wikipedia dead links directory. You will find millions of pages which requires modifications. 

• For an example I have taken 1873–74 in English football from the dead link directory of Wikipedia.
  

• For easy way to find the dead links, check with CTRL+F .
  
  
  

Putting the cursor on the dead click text it even shows since when it is dead.

• If we click on the click it clearly shows that the page has been removed or name changed.
  

• Let us go to the Edit source. Before editing you must be logged in to Wikipedia. If you do not have the account then open the account right now. It's Free. 
  

• As we can see the link here which is dead then we can remove the link in order to remove the 404 error. So here we can simply remove the text which is within the bracket starting with http://www..

• Check the minor edit box and you can even put a description of what you edited as there are real human moderators in Wikipedia, so before publishing they will check with all the editing work you specified. Save the page.
  

You can find the actual site of Report on Scotland Vs England match in search engines and edit it with the correct reference. For editing with correct reference click on <ref><ref/> in CITE YOUR SOURCES and put the correct URL in between <ref><ref/>. 

We can even put our site web address after editing the article in our niche topic. That will create an extremely valuable back-link from Wikipedia. You can build numerous backlink from Wikipedia and rank higher in Search Engines.

If you have any further questions about dead link and fixing dead link in Wikipedia then feel free to ask.