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Never change the article path without a redirect.

If I honor you with a well deserved link to your article in a section that requires the context, insights and perspective you provide it should not be made into a mistake to be avoided next time. I should not have to do the work for you - because I wont.

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You’re preaching about the wrong issue. Arranging an HTTP redirect on your server won’t deduplicate records with mismanaged IDs in the aggregator.

That's why when I write something that I think will be read for years to come I use archive links to link to other pages.

I keep thinking I should archive everything but only link to it if the target goes missing. Could check every time it is clicked or scan for dead links.

For a while I put magnet links under youtube videos. Got a mail from someone looking for a video for a long time. He found many pages with the deleted video on them, including mine.

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