it would seem a bit excessive to me and i think someone in the discussions i linked to also thought so but who knows as long as webcitation org is only archiving text and not photos video i don't know about the latter given that terabyte hard disks will become normal within the next year or so it wouldn't put much additional pressure on internet computer resources to do this collectively for all wikipedians for a few hundred million cites and store it on just one single hard disk personally i'll probably just try and see you can probably make a mental note or note on your user page which journals have a habit of being volatile online newspapers from places with relatively weak internet access and less developed internet gnu linux communities e g iraq probably might be volatile in the sense that after a few years they will change software hosting urls or go offline for whatever reason another point is that webcitation org probably doesn't yet have a long term reputation archive org and arxiv org have been around for a long time arxiv org has very solid institutional backing and a huge amount of mirroring in any case i don't see why anyone could complain if you archived every cited reference