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Q&A How to document and cite website downtime properly?

Did you take screenshots of it being down? Does the site have an errors log? Is there a site you checked those days to make sure it wasn't just you? (https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ and https://d...

posted 5y ago by April Salutes Monica C.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2020-02-10T14:22:55Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:17:06Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T11:17:06Z (almost 5 years ago)
Did you take screenshots of it being down? Does the site have an errors log? Is there a site you checked those days to make sure it wasn't just you? ([https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/](https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/) and [https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/](https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/) are a few).

If the site is consistently archived on Archive.org's Wayback Machine, if you can show that on days surrounding it, there is an image of the site, but on the down-day, it shows just a (whatever) error, then that's another piece of evidence.

Whatever you use, then just cite it like any other website. If you did screenshots as evidence, then I would include those as an appendix.

(source - I used to teach Technical Writing at a local university)

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-03-12T16:07:30Z (over 5 years ago)
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