link someone placed a link to the prior article which has been archived off wikipedia and is no longer wikipedia's responsibility in the current article since this is a hot news story and the new version of the article is a stub i see nothing wrong with giving people a link to the old version while the new one is rewritten so they at least have something to read justin is of course welcome to complain to anyone hosting the old article but as you know trying such things on the internet just makes more people replicate the information on their sites and is a fruitless exercise if someone can come up with a really good reason why we shouldn't do this i am willing to listen but barring that i will happily use up my two reverts to maintain the link to the old article until the new one contains more than sentences of information