Talk:Q2256

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Autodescription — Birmingham (Q2256)

description: city in West Midlands, England
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The population density of a city could be in x persons per square mile or in x persons per square kilometer. There is only an option to select "density" and "square mile" or "square kilometer", but not "persons per square mile/square kilometer". Maybe "density" was not supposed to be used for populations, but other city pages have these entries also.

Sister cities[edit]

The url used as a reference, https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/twins is now a dead link. The version at the time the claims were added can be seen at http://web.archive.org/web/20131202223641/http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/twins - is there a more up-to-date version available or do we have a mechanism for noting entries from the Internet Archive? --RexxS (talk) 19:31, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've now found the following:

I'll update the refs shortly if somebody doesn't beat me to it. --RexxS (talk) 19:37, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@RexxS: "...do we have a mechanism for noting entries from the Internet Archive?" Like this; albeit reference URL (P854) should have been used in the first place. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:51, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Andy. I was hoping for something more akin to enwp's |archiveurl= and |archivedate= which makes retrieving archived pages easy (especially as not all web archives encode the archive date as Wayback Machine does). --RexxS (talk) 20:59, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]