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I'd argue Weblinks Are Not Examples extends to partial or full context examples as well, since, if there's sufficient context, a weblink isn't required at all. Users should not rely on external information while reading (then can also do research themselves), so if possible, weblinks should be replaced with a description of what's in them if the example doesn't have it already. Also, it's possible to reupload some things internally as Image Links or Video Source so they could stay with us, though we still need to comply with copyright laws.
(This is a plague for Awesome Music subpages that rely on fan channels to be alive with pirated soundtrack)
There's also a dedicated thread for it
, though not very active.

When it comes to examples that contain external links (Important note: I'm not talking about "examples" that are ENTIRELY links, I know those should just be cut), I'm finding that Link Rot is hitting this site more and more with time due to how long we've been around.
Now, normally I head to the Wayback Machine to necromance dead links. But that's not always possible; like, an example under Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption formerly had a link to a Smosh article that couldn't be restored. The example was still valid without the link, so I took out the link and kept the example, but the additional information it was there to give and cite was lost, which is something I still found unfortunate.
How often does this issue really come up? And how do we root around for where they lay, just manually clicking on each? Is there already a dedicated cleanup effort to finding dead links? (I can't access the forums to check for myself.)