Suppressing *some* of the crawls for a seed

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Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez

June 06, 2024 20:24

Hello,

We just realized that some of the COVID-19 websites that we were capturing on a quarterly frequency have now been taken down or in this case bought and used for other purposes:

https://oc-covid19.org/

Is it possible to remove all snapshots for this site taken after April 2023?

https://wayback.archive-it.org/5613/*/https://oc-covid19.org/

Thank you

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  Linda at Archive-It June 10, 2024 18:57

  Thank you for your request, Elvia! Captures after April 2023 are now suppressed for https://wayback.archive-it.org/5613/*/https://oc-covid19.org/

  This kind of result was mentioned in a recent NiemanReports long-form piece Saving the First Draft of History:

  Whether they’re created by accident or not, holes in the record create openings for bad actors. A cottage industry has sprung up to buy the URLs linked to in news articles and fill them with ads. If a site closes down, its domain name can go up for sale to the highest bidder. Years after it shuttered, The Hairpin, a website led by women writers, resurfaced as a clickbait farm populated by AI-written articles.^⁠” 

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  Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez June 10, 2024 19:17

  Linda, thank you so much for removing the crawls and for linking this article for further context.

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