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>>>>> Thomas Levine <_ at thomaslevine.com> >>>>> on Fri, 28 Jul 2017 18:53:16 +0000 writes: > The attached patch corrects a dead link in the treering > documentation. The URL in the manual [1] refers to a > personal home page belonging to Christine Hallman (user > "hallman") on the website of the University of Arizona

...s consistent with the practice in many other base libraries and that it is thus acceptable. At present, base makes no references to the Wayback Machine but makes several references to English Wikipedia. An even more consistent option is thus to link to the English Wikipedia article for Great Basin bristlecone pine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_longaeva) or for Methuselah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(tree)) instead of the Wayback Machine page that I reference in the patch. (Note that the treering data are from a tree in the Methuselah Walk but not from Methuselah itself.) On the oth...